Godfrey

1931

27 September 1916 – 28 February 2008

Suzanne Cecile Ebel was born on 27 September 1916 in Sutton, Surrey, London, England, UK, of an Irish mother and French father, a interior decorator who drove a Rolls-Royce. She was educated at Roman Catholic schools in England and Belgium. In London, she worked as a journalist at The Times Newspaper, as a public relations director, and from 1950 to 1972 for the advertising agency Young and Rubicam. She married a dentist, with whom she had a son, James, and an adopted daughter, Marigold, but the marriage faltered. In 1947, she met John Goodwin, a former lieutenant in the RNVR and later theatre director, and they had a son, Tim. They finally married in 1971, after she was widowed. She died on…