Edward Latourelle "Ed" Godat
Marriages
Minerva May Oliver Godat - 1903
Burial Details
Obituaries
Eagle Valley Enterprise page 1 - March 7, 1957
ED GODAT DIED SATURDAY IN GLENWOOD SPRINGS.
Edwards Latourelle GODAT, 79, native of Illinois and resident of Sweetwater for nearly 50 years, died in the Mt. View Nursing Home, Glenwood Springs Mar.2 following a two-months illness.
Mr. GODAT was born Sept. 5, 1877 at Galena, Ill. and followed the occupation of a rancher and miner. He is the last of a family of four boys and five girls born to Gustvis A. and Estella Z. GODAT.
The GODAT family came to Colorado when Ed was a small boy. They brought their livestock and household furnishings by rail as far as Red Cliff, where the railroad ended. The elder Mr. GODAT trailed the cattle and moved his family by wagon down the Eagle River valley as far as Dotsero, where they ferried the Grande River (now the Colorado), and for a time stayed with the Jack STEWART family at Dotsero. The family went on to stay for a while at Sweetwater living on what is now the Jim STEPHENS ranch, then moved to Aspen.
Ed returned to Sweetwater frequently to visit his sister, the late Mrs. HACK. He returned to Illinois where at the age of 19, he lost his left arm, when his hand was caught in a hay baler. In 1903 he returned to Colorado, going to Cripple Creek, where he met and married Minerva May OLIVER of Woodland Park in 1903. The couple lived in Cripple Creek and Canon City then moved to Palisade where their two sons, Eugene and Gerald were born. The family returned to the Sweetwater area and for a while Ed was employed on the Shoshone Dam construction in Glenwood Canon. In 1913 they moved to Sweetwater and seven years later homesteaded the place he lived at the time of his death.
Mrs. GODAT died in 1914 and the two sons were raised by Mr. GODAT's late sister, Lucy KEEP at Sweetwater.
He is survived by two sons Eugene E. of Sweetwater and Gerald of Denver; six grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were held at the Methodist Church in Gypsum, March 4 with Rev.Paul KREUZENSTEIN of Silt delivering the funeral sermon. Burdge Mortuary was in charge of arrangements. Interment was in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Gypsum.
