Cozette Barker Godsey

Cozette Barker Godsey BETHESDA, Md. Cozette Barker Godsey, 87, died Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2010. She was the widow of two natives of Bristol, James A. Barker, who died in 1995, and John D. Godsey, who died on Oct. 12, 2010. She was born in Fort Collins, Colo., in 1923, to William F. Hapney and Verna Carter Hapney, and grew up there. She received a B.S. from Colorado State University and a Masters of Public Health from Harvard University's School of Public Health. She worked in the health field, including positions as a staffer with a commission created by President Truman to study healthcare reform in the 1940s and as a representative of various healthcare interests on Capitol Hill (including the American Occupational Therapists Association). She was a longtime member of Bethesda Presbyterian Church in Bethesda, Md., where she held positions as a deacon and an elder, and more recently, after her second marriage, was a member of Bethesda United Methodist Church, also in Bethesda, Maryland. She also devoted significant time as a volunteer director of a home health organization in Washington, D.C. She was preceded in death by her parents, her two husbands, her sister, Hope Pruckner of San Diego. She is survived by three sons with her first husband, James A. Barker: James A. Barker Jr. (Celine), of Bethesda, Md., John C. Barker (Nancy Cheng) of San Francisco, and Christopher A. Barker (Karen) of Great Falls, Va.; eight grandchildren; and one niece, Susan P. Davey of San Diego. She will be buried at Glenwood Cemetery on Monday, Oct. 18, at 11 a.m., after a graveside service conducted by Dr. Gordon Turnbull. The family will gather with friends and relatives at Akard Funeral Home beginning at 9:30 a.m. Monday prior to the burial. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations in her memory be made either to the Alzheimer's Association, P.O. Box 96011, Washington, DC 20090-6011or Doctors Without Borders, P.O. Box 5030, Hagerstown, MD 21741 Akard Funeral Home, 1912 W. State St., Bristol, TN (423) 989-4800 is serving the family of Mrs. Godsey.