Deborah Godney
Posted: May 30, 2017
COLUMBUS — Deborah Jean Nowland Godney, 65, died May 27, 2017, at her residence. Services are at 3 p.m. Tuesday at Memorial Funeral Home Chapel with Bill Hurt officiating. Burial will follow in Memorial Gardens. Visitation is two hours prior to services at the funeral home. Mrs. Godney was born May 11, 1952, to the late Ernest and Dorris May Nowland Sr. She was a graduate of Smyrna High School in Smyrna, Tennessee. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her brother, Michael Nowland; and sister, Mona Nowland Mathis. She is survived by her husband, Ronald Godney Sr.; son, Ronald Godney II of Hamilton; daughter, Erin D. Ryan of Newport News, Virginia; brother, Ernest Nowland of Columbus; eight grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren. Memorials may be made to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Research Fund, 5005 LBJ Freeway, Suite 250, Dallas, TX 75244.