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South St. Louis Primary Childhood Home

This is 6209 Marquette Ave., St. Louis, Mo., where Mary and Joseph Donnelly Godsil raised Jo Ann, Jean, and myself, from about 1951 until I moved to the Pruitt Igoe Neighborhood in Kerry Patch St. Louis, my junior year in college, 1966. My Mother and Father returned to God from “Marquette House,” in 1977 and 1982 respectively. If you look closely you will see Megan, Joseph, and Bridie posing in front of my ancestral home in South St. Louis, during a visit we made there somewhere around 2001.

Grandpa Godsil With First Grandchild Baby Kate

Megan, Bridie, and Joey Florida Keys 1991

Newberry House on Milwaukee’s East Side

Here is the house that gave the illusion of Godsil as the “rich roofer” to casual observers. It is a beautiful house on a marvelous Milwaukee boulevard, but far too dark inside and expensive to live in relative to my income since “getting off the roofs.” Mary Maroney, I, and my children Megan, Joseph, and Bridie lived here from 1998 until 2002.

Family Christmas at Newberry House 2001

Megan, Rachel’s and Jim Freeman’s daughter Kate, Rachel, Joseph, Bridie, and Mary. Maybe Jim is taking the picture.

Olde Godsile, Children, and First Grandchild in Chinatown, NY

Godsil Wines Family at Clinton Rally 1992