When Jack Goodwin was born on 3 June 1921, in Kim, Las Animas, Colorado, United States, his father, Dugas George Goodwin, was 41 and his mother, Mabel A Smelker, was 36. He married Luella M Dunsworth on 13 September 1938, in Springfield, Baca, Colorado, United States. He lived in Las Animas, Colorado, United States in 1935 and Hasty, Bent, Colorado, United States in 1940. He died on 11 May 1997, in La Junta, Otero, Colorado, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Fairview Cemetery, La Junta, Otero, Colorado, United States.
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English: from the Middle English personal name Godwin (Old English Gōdwine). Compare Godwin .
Irish: adopted in Mayo for Ó Goidín, a variant of Ó Godáin, ‘descendant of Godán’, a diminutive personal name from got ‘stammering, lisping’.
History: This name was brought independently to New England by many bearers from the 17th century onward. William Goodwin was one of the founders of Hartford, CT, in 1635 (coming from Cambridge, MA with Thomas Hooker).
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