Daughter of William Asa and Lucie Ellerbe Godbold.
COLUMBIA - Miss Sarah Ellerbe Godbold, 81, of 3300 Pine Belt Road, died Thursday in Richland Memorial Hospital. She was born in Marion County, a daughter of the late William Asa and Lucie Ellerbe Godbold. She was a niece of former Gov. William H. Ellerbe and former US Rep. I. Edwin Ellerbe.
She was a graduate of Winthrop College and taught for 44 years prior to her retirement in 1964.
Miss Godbold taught physical education at Chicora College, the University of SC and Columbia High School. She also supervised a girl's camp in Jocassee during the summers for over 37 years.
"Children were scared of Miss Sarah, and they loved Miss Sarah, if you can believe that," said former principal Roger Kirk when the new Columbia High School opened in 1976. "With her right was right, and wrong was wrong, and there was no betwixt or between. But everybody knew it."
A former student who graduated from Columbia High in the late 1950s said, "Sarah Godbold stopped me every day and made me put my shirttail in and go to the bathroom and comb my hair. She had the ability to intimidate without being specific."
At her retirement party, she appreciated most principal E.R. Crown's testimonial, "You always knew where you stood with her on any subject."
Although she taught girls' physical education and the Columbia High gym is named for her, Miss Godbold probably will be remembered as much for her leadership in establishing the school's point system which has become a tradition.
If a student earns 60 points during his high school career, he receives a 60 Point Award, renamed "The Godbold Activity Award" when Miss Godbold retired.
She was a member of Estill Methodist Church.
Surviving is a sister, Miss Lucille Godbold of Columbia College.
Services will be 11 a.m. today in Dunbar Funeral Home, conducted by the Rev. C.J. Lupo. Burial will be 4 p.m. in Lawtonville Cemetery in Estill.
Published in The State, September 15, 1979
COLUMBIA - Miss Sarah Ellerbe Godbold, 81, of 3300 Pine Belt Road, died Thursday in Richland Memorial Hospital. She was born in Marion County, a daughter of the late William Asa and Lucie Ellerbe Godbold. She was a niece of former Gov. William H. Ellerbe and former US Rep. I. Edwin Ellerbe.
She was a graduate of Winthrop College and taught for 44 years prior to her retirement in 1964.
Miss Godbold taught physical education at Chicora College, the University of SC and Columbia High School. She also supervised a girl's camp in Jocassee during the summers for over 37 years.
"Children were scared of Miss Sarah, and they loved Miss Sarah, if you can believe that," said former principal Roger Kirk when the new Columbia High School opened in 1976. "With her right was right, and wrong was wrong, and there was no betwixt or between. But everybody knew it."
A former student who graduated from Columbia High in the late 1950s said, "Sarah Godbold stopped me every day and made me put my shirttail in and go to the bathroom and comb my hair. She had the ability to intimidate without being specific."
At her retirement party, she appreciated most principal E.R. Crown's testimonial, "You always knew where you stood with her on any subject."
Although she taught girls' physical education and the Columbia High gym is named for her, Miss Godbold probably will be remembered as much for her leadership in establishing the school's point system which has become a tradition.
If a student earns 60 points during his high school career, he receives a 60 Point Award, renamed "The Godbold Activity Award" when Miss Godbold retired.
She was a member of Estill Methodist Church.
Surviving is a sister, Miss Lucille Godbold of Columbia College.
Services will be 11 a.m. today in Dunbar Funeral Home, conducted by the Rev. C.J. Lupo. Burial will be 4 p.m. in Lawtonville Cemetery in Estill.
Published in The State, September 15, 1979
Daughter of William Asa and Lucie Ellerbe Godbold.
COLUMBIA - Miss Sarah Ellerbe Godbold, 81, of 3300 Pine Belt Road, died Thursday in Richland Memorial Hospital. She was born in Marion County, a daughter of the late William Asa and Lucie Ellerbe Godbold. She was a niece of former Gov. William H. Ellerbe and former US Rep. I. Edwin Ellerbe.
She was a graduate of Winthrop College and taught for 44 years prior to her retirement in 1964.
Miss Godbold taught physical education at Chicora College, the University of SC and Columbia High School. She also supervised a girl's camp in Jocassee during the summers for over 37 years.
"Children were scared of Miss Sarah, and they loved Miss Sarah, if you can believe that," said former principal Roger Kirk when the new Columbia High School opened in 1976. "With her right was right, and wrong was wrong, and there was no betwixt or between. But everybody knew it."
A former student who graduated from Columbia High in the late 1950s said, "Sarah Godbold stopped me every day and made me put my shirttail in and go to the bathroom and comb my hair. She had the ability to intimidate without being specific."
At her retirement party, she appreciated most principal E.R. Crown's testimonial, "You always knew where you stood with her on any subject."
Although she taught girls' physical education and the Columbia High gym is named for her, Miss Godbold probably will be remembered as much for her leadership in establishing the school's point system which has become a tradition.
If a student earns 60 points during his high school career, he receives a 60 Point Award, renamed "The Godbold Activity Award" when Miss Godbold retired.
She was a member of Estill Methodist Church.
Surviving is a sister, Miss Lucille Godbold of Columbia College.
Services will be 11 a.m. today in Dunbar Funeral Home, conducted by the Rev. C.J. Lupo. Burial will be 4 p.m. in Lawtonville Cemetery in Estill.
Published in The State, September 15, 1979
COLUMBIA - Miss Sarah Ellerbe Godbold, 81, of 3300 Pine Belt Road, died Thursday in Richland Memorial Hospital. She was born in Marion County, a daughter of the late William Asa and Lucie Ellerbe Godbold. She was a niece of former Gov. William H. Ellerbe and former US Rep. I. Edwin Ellerbe.
She was a graduate of Winthrop College and taught for 44 years prior to her retirement in 1964.
Miss Godbold taught physical education at Chicora College, the University of SC and Columbia High School. She also supervised a girl's camp in Jocassee during the summers for over 37 years.
"Children were scared of Miss Sarah, and they loved Miss Sarah, if you can believe that," said former principal Roger Kirk when the new Columbia High School opened in 1976. "With her right was right, and wrong was wrong, and there was no betwixt or between. But everybody knew it."
A former student who graduated from Columbia High in the late 1950s said, "Sarah Godbold stopped me every day and made me put my shirttail in and go to the bathroom and comb my hair. She had the ability to intimidate without being specific."
At her retirement party, she appreciated most principal E.R. Crown's testimonial, "You always knew where you stood with her on any subject."
Although she taught girls' physical education and the Columbia High gym is named for her, Miss Godbold probably will be remembered as much for her leadership in establishing the school's point system which has become a tradition.
If a student earns 60 points during his high school career, he receives a 60 Point Award, renamed "The Godbold Activity Award" when Miss Godbold retired.
She was a member of Estill Methodist Church.
Surviving is a sister, Miss Lucille Godbold of Columbia College.
Services will be 11 a.m. today in Dunbar Funeral Home, conducted by the Rev. C.J. Lupo. Burial will be 4 p.m. in Lawtonville Cemetery in Estill.
Published in The State, September 15, 1979
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