Coal Co OK - Obit for Grover Lee Woods

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Grover Lee Woods
   
Grover Lee Woods, 85, of Amarillo died Friday, Jan. 11, 2002.
   
Services will be at 2 p.m. Monday in Schooler Funeral Home Brentwood
Chapel, 4100 S. Georgia St., with the Rev. O.R. Looper of Aubrey
officiating. Burial will be in Llano Cemetery.
  
Mr. Woods was born in Coal County, Indian Territory, Nov. 18, 1916,
but grew up near Melrose, N.M. He returned to Oklahoma at age 14 and
lived with his uncle Dick and aunt Will Woods.
   
He married Jewell Craft in Tishomingo, Okla., on Dec. 7, 1935. They
moved to New Mexico and purchased a farm between Melrose and House and
reared a family. He and his wife and daughter lived in Halfway for
seven years then moved to Dalhart where he resided for 32 years.
   
He was a member of Lincoln Baptist Church in Dalhart. Upon retirement,
he and his wife moved to Amarillo. His love for farming prevailed
throughout his life.
   
Survivors include his wife; two daughters, Colleen Daily of Amarillo
and Betty Mowery of Atlanta; a son, Jerry D. Woods of Canyon; four
sisters, Zell Stone, Helen Henry, Lou Ellen Henson and Patsy Magrin,
all of Tulsa, Okla.; two brothers, Rev. John Woods of Tulsa and
Stanley G. Woods of Sargent; 10 grandchildren; nine
great-grandchildren; and a great-great-grandchild.
   
Amarillo Globe-News, Jan. 13, 2002
   
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