Simplify the following text for a Grade 7 native English-speaking person.
Original: His father , Vinayak Vamanrao Godse , was a post office employee and his mother was Lakshmii ( nÃ e Godavari ) .
Simplified: His father was Vinayak Vaman Rao Godse , his mother Lakshmi ( Godavari before marriage ) . His father was a fifteen-rupee-a-month employee of the post office .