Jay mourns loss of JHS grad

The town of Jay mourns the loss of 25-year-old Eric Godfrey, who was electrocuted Monday, Nov. 11, while working in Yalobusha County, Miss.

Godfrey was on a construction site in Oakland, Miss. and was laying a pipe underground when a machine made contact with an overhead power line, according to the Yalobusha County coroner.

A 2018 graduate of Jay High School, Godrey started playing football there in eighth grade as a starter and soon moved up to varsity. He received the Challenger Award in 2017 and was selected to play in the Subway Classic for football, where he played the receiver for that...