Terry Godfrey
A Self-Made Man

Terry Godfrey is a self-made man. On his own at age eleven Terry did what he could to make some money. He entered the Army when he was seventeen. Terry completed basic training at Ft. Polk, Louisiana. His duty stations were in Ft. Bragg, North Carolina and at Camp Casey and Camp Edwards in South Korea. He was honorably discharged from the Army. We salute Terry’s service to our country. Thank you, Terry!

Terry’s dream was to become a crew boat captain on a 100 ft. boat. He went to Captain’s School in New Orleans, Louisiana and was later hired by Arthur Levy Seahorse, a crew and work boat company. For eleven years Terry Godfrey drove crew boats back and forth to oil rigs in Texas and Louisiana. When the oil field collapsed, he drove flat bed trucks for thirty years for different companies. He’s been to all forty-eight states!

Terry was water baptized when he was eleven in a Baptist Church. Commenting about his water baptism he said, “I felt a peace and serenity that passes all understanding.” He, also, stated that “I felt that same peace when my mother passed.” Again, Terry said, “When I rededicated my life at thirty years old, I felt that same peace.” Another comment Terry made about his faith was: “My grandmother read to me on a feather bed the Bible and it saved my life a thousand times over.”

It’s not hard to see that Terry loves the water. He said that when he was growing up his family loved to vacation in Galveston. Terry was born in Arlington, Texas in 1953 and for the past two years he has lived in Seadrift. Terry said, “I looked around and I fell in love with Seadrift and its people.”

Terry is a member of what he calls “the welcoming people” of the Methodist Church. Terry was impressed as a child with the Methodist Church because of its welcoming people. Terry states, “I want to stay in Seadrift because of the people of the Methodist Church.”

-Tanya DeForest

Terry Godrey Then and Now