Obituary of Mrs. Ada Woods Buffington, Caldwell Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Kim Wise
Source: The Caldwell Watchman-Progress, August 27, 1970
Date: September 2004



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Headline:  Ada Buffington Laid to Rest, The Caldwell Watchman-Progress
August 27, 1970


Mrs. Ada Woods Buffington, a former member of the Caldwell Parish School 
System, being employed for several years in the Clarks High School, died 
late Thursday night in the St. Mary's Sanitarium in St. Louis, Missouri, 
at the age of 67.  Her death was attributed to cancer, her death occuring 
after a lengthy illness.

Mrs. Buffington was born in Centralia, Washington, on March 15, 1903, but 
moved to Grandin, Missouri, when but a child.  Later, she came to Standard,
in LaSalle Parish, with her parents, where her father, the late Charles 
Thomas Woods, was employed with the Louisiana Central Lumber Company 
sawmill there.  She graduated from the old Olla-Standard High School, and 
received a degree in teaching at the old La. State Normal at Natchitoches. 
Her first teaching position was in the high school she graduated from in 
1922.  In 1927, when the sawmill at Standard was shut down, the family 
moved to Clarks, where she accepted a position teaching in the high school 
there.  She later married J. H. Buffington, a brother to the late Z. L. 
Buffington, longtime resident of Clarks, and the couple then moved to St. 
Louis, Missouri where she began teaching in the school system in that city.
Her husband died several years ago and is buried at Piedmont, Missouri.

Her father preceded her in death in 1935 and her mother died this past 
June.  Survivors include three brothers, George H. Woods, of Olla, H. Ted 
Woods who is president of the Caldwell Broadcasting Company and member of 
the Louisiana Tourist Commission for the 5th District, Columbia, Howard T. 
Woods, Editor and Publisher of the Caldwell Watchman at Columbia, and a 
sister, Mrs. Fleta Roth, of St. Louis.

Funeral services were held in St. Louis, Missouri on Saturday and the body 
was then flown to the Riser and Son Funeral Home in Columbia where it lay 
in state in the chapel there until Sunday afternoon at 3:00 p.m. where it 
was taken to Riverview Memorial Park Cemetery in Monroe for graveside 
services at 4:00 p.m., with the Rev. Sam Holliday officiating.