Osage County, Oklahoma, Obituary:  John Henry Woodard

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THIS is typed from newpaper clippings taken from Okla. Newspapers by 
Belle Forrest Sumpter Gullett and put into a scrapbook to be given to her 
descendents.

I thought you would like this clipping of Jakes's.  He died at VA Hospital 
in Muskogee. It was an Aneurysom of aorota…he was a double cousin of 
Margaret's.
Love, Vernie and Margaret
 
In Loving Memory of John Henry Woodard, born september 15 , 1917 Tuttle 
Oklahoma, died January 9,2003 at Muskogee, Oklahoma
Religious Funeral Service, 1:pm. Monday, january 13, 2003,Lakeview Baptist 
Church-Salina, Ok.
Officiating: Rev. Bobby Belew
Music: Gary Tramel
Pall bearers:
Carl SUMPTER, Bill FULLER, Clarence SUMPTER, Glen Bostic, John HUSONG, 
Lloyd GULLETT
Military Honors: Ft. Sill, Okla USA Army Post
Interment: Greenlawn Cemetery, Checotah, Oklahoma
Key Funeral Home, Tim and Clara Key, Pryor Oklahoma, Dedicated to those we 
serve.

Obit from Newspaper-name of paper not given
"JOHN HENRY WOODARD"

"Funeral services for John Henry Woodard, 85, Locust Grove, Okla. Will be 
1: pm Monday, January 13, 2003 in the Lakeview Baptist Church of Salina, 
Okla.

Rev. Bobby Belew will officiate and burial will be in the Green Lawn 
cemetery in Checotah, Okla.

Services are under direction of the Key Funeral Home of Locust Grove.

Woodard was born on September 15, 1917 in Tuttle. He died January 9, 2003, 
in Muskogee.

John Henry Woodard was the son of Napoleon Bonaparte and Earnestine 
(SUMPTER) Leadford/Woodard. 

He was an Army veteran of World War II abd served three years and a half 
as a prisoner of war in Japan. He worked for McDonald Douglas Aircraft as 
an electrician retiring in 1979, along with various other trades throughout 
his life.

He loved his church, Lakeview Baptist Church in Salina, and spending time 
with his grandchildren and living on his farm.

Survivors include: Wife, Tressye Woodard of the home, children: Betty LIND 
of Wagoner, Okla., Rudy WOODARD of Hackberry, Louisiana, and Tami SANDERS 
of Osage Okla., five generations of grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by one son Delano Callison Woodard and his parents.