Robert Godden:  

CLASS OF 1961
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Marshall, IN
Union CollegeClass of 1985
Barbourville, KY
Roachdale, IN
Roachdale, IN

Robert's Story

Left TRHS in 1961 before graduating because my dad relocated to find work. Really hated leaving Sugar Creek as I loved the area, but at 16 you don't have many choices. Went to Florida with my family and they wanted me to start 12th grade over, so I quit school and worked for about a year and saw my life was going nowhere, so I enlisted in the Army and spent a year in Alaska and reenlisted to get out of there and then went to Nato Headquarters in Paris for about three years. While in the Army I completed my GED and took some college courses. Married a French girl and we went to Germany where they said she had TB and wouldn't let her in the US. Got out of servic because of it, and was going to return to France and live, but that and marriage didn't work out and I moved on. Went back to Detroit where my family lived and stayed there until 1970. In late 1970 I married again and we had three kids and lived in Detroit, Michigan and then moved to Barbourville, Kentucky where I went to and graudate from Union College with as degree in accounting. We lived in Kenturck for 6 years and then moved to Texas where we lived until our divorce in 1993. I became a plant manager in a manufacturing plant and was then recurited to Pittsburgh, Pa to startup a new plant in a converted steel mill. It was a good career move for me but my family did not like Pittsburgh and returned to Texas without me. After 1 year of travelling back and forth I gave in and returned to Texas, but the damage in the marriage was too much and we divorced. My girls were over 18 and were away from home except for teenage son so I left my ex in Texas and moved back to Florida. My son choose to remain in Texas with my ex. Didn't like being single after over 20 years of marriage, so I married a 21 year old .....ya ya......I know......with three kids. She was on the Norplant and got preganant and we had a little girl that weighed ...Expand for more
1lb 4 oz at birth and spent 6 1/2 month in the hospital to get to 5 lbs. After 8 years she moved on and I took custody of all four kids and have had them by myself the last 8 years. One graduated from college with an Associated Degree in Nursing at 17. Yes 17, and is now attending FIU in Miami to become a school teacher. The middle daughter is in her Senior year of High School and is wanted to be a Doctor. The youngest boy is 15 and is in a rehab facility as he has had cerbal palsy since birth and I just can't take care of him as he is medically fragile. We see him every week and bring him home for the holidays. He is happy and does well in the facility. The youngest daughter Candilyn is in the 8th grade so as you see I have a few years left. My only prayer s to live long enough to see them all out of school. Someone in Nashville, wrote a song about me in "What were you thinking", but it seemed like a good idea at the time. I married a General's daughter, a preacher's daughter and a dingy's daughter so I figure three strikes and your out, so if I can just finish what I've started I will be satisfied that I have completed life as best I can. I am hoping that in the future I can make one of the reunions in September of each year. Doesn't seem like many have written there stories here. I'm sure we all have proud moments in our life that we could share, and some sad ones that perhaps we care not to share. I am the sum of all my years, and have been happy, sad and just ok. I have been right and wrong, and sometimes indifferent to the situations of my own life, but there have made me the sum of what I am. I have learned that there is good as well as bad in all of us, and the choice is ours alone as to how we handle lifes problems. Now I have covered my life since TRHS pretty quickle, but check back now and then and I may fill in the blanks a little more. I'll be waiting for your story.
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My Kids Now 2006
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