Worcester News sports ed Jack Godfrey dies (From Worcester News)

Worcester News sports ed Jack Godfrey dies

12:00pm Monday 15th March 2010 in

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FORMER Worcester News sports editor Jack Godfrey has died at the age of 95.

One of the best known names in Midlands sports journalism, Mr Godfrey headed the newspaper’s sports desk for 33 years before retiring in 1979.

His career began in 1931 when he joined the Evesham Standard as a junior reporter.

When a spell as sports editor of the Standard was cut short by five years war service, he returned to journalism after the Second World War as sports editor of the News and Times in Worcester.

Throughout his career Mr Godfrey covered the whole gamut of sporting events, including football, boxing, athletics, horse racing and bowls, but will be best remembered as the cricket correspondent of the Worcester Evening News, reporting on the progress of Worcestershire County Cricket Club.

With his wife Betty, who survives him, constantly at his side, Mr Godfrey became a familiar figure at cricket grounds throughout the country.

So devoted were the couple to Worcestershire CCC, Mrs Godfrey once joked:” I think Richard ( their son) must have been brought up in the press box at the County Ground.”

Mr Godfrey, who lived in St Dunstan’s Close, Worcester, died in Worcestershire Royal Hospital died after a short illness.

Funeral arrangements will be announced later.

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