Obituary of Lois Marie Knight Woods, Caldwell Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Kim Wise
Source: Riser Funeral Home
Date: August 28, 2004



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Obituary:  Lois Marie Knight Woods
December 11, 2003

Services for Lois Knight Woods, age 83, of Columbia will be held
at 2 p.m., Thursday, December 11, 2003 from the chapel of Riser
Funeral Home in Columbia with Rev. Pam Roy officiating.  Interment 
will follow in the Welcome Home Cemetery in Grayson.
  
Mrs. Woods, a retired state employee, was born in Pine Bluff, Ar.
on September 17, 1920 to the union of Kennon and Amelia Pardue
Knight and died Tuesday, December 9, 2003 at the St. Francis Medical 
Center in Monroe after a short illness.
   
At the age of 9 she moved with her family to Clarks, La. where her
father was a foreman with La. Central Lumber Company.  After graduation 
from Clarks High School, she went to Business School in Shreveport, La., 
then worked at local banks before she began her career as
a stenographer for the State of Louisiana Family Services, then known
as the Welfare Office in Columbia.  She received many honors during
her employment with the state, including Businesswoman of the Year,
before retiring after 28 years to begin a second career at the Caldwell
Watchman newspaper, with her husband, Howard Thomas Woods,
whom she married in 1940.  She wrote a Columbia News column and
served as co-owner and co-editor with her husband, and later her son,
Theo, until retirement in 1990 when the newspaper was sold.  During
the years when her children were growing up, she was active in Columbia 
High School and later Caldwell Parish High School Band Boosters Club.
   
She was peceded in death by her parents, her brother and sisters: 
Travis Knight, Cannie Mae Busch and Lucille Caillet, her husband,
Howard T. Woods and her son, Howard Theodore "Theo" Woods.
   
She is survived by two daughters: Carole Boyd-Jones and her husband,
Phillip of Carrolton, Texas and Tommie Lane Woods McCarty and her
husband, Daniel of Grayson, six grandchildren, Bill Boyd Wendy 
McLean, Michael Boyd, Vicki Brunson, Daniel McCarty and Erin Mc-
Carty, eight great-grandchildren, her half-brother: Bill Knight, several 
neices and nephews and a special friend, Bobbie Swim.
   
Serving as pallbearers are Daniel McCarty, Jr., Daniel McCarty III, 
Bill Boyd, Clint Brunson, Raymond Caillet and Earl Nelson.
   
Honorary pallbearers are Wilson Boudreaux and Phillip Jones.
   
Memorials may be made to the First United Methodist Church, 
P.O.Box 178, Columbia, La. 71418