Freestone County, Texas
Obituaries, Memorials, and Death Notices


  Obituary for Forrest Edwards Wood, Sr.
  
  
  Fairfield Recorder newspaper - Apr 26, 1996 edition

Forrest E. Wood

  Funeral services were held Saturday in Fairfield for Forrest Edwards Wood, 83, 
of Fairfield who died Thursday, April 18 at Fairfield Memorial Hospital. 
  Mr. Wood was born July 26, 1912 in Bell county. He was an automobile dealer 
and a member of First Baptist Church of Fairfield.
  He was a member of Fairfield Masonic Lodge #103 A.F. & A.M., and a past patron 
of Fairfield Chapter #331 O.E.S.
  Services were conducted at 2 p.m. at Capps Memorial Chapel, with special music 
provided by organist Nancy Barnes and soloist Frank O'Banion.
  Burial was at Bonner Cemetery. Pallbearers were Frank Bonner, Billy Hugh Bonner, 
Andy Bonner, Charlie Heinemann, Eric Wood and Warren Awalt.
  Mr. Wood is survived by his wife, Annie L. Bonner Wood of Fairfield; a daughter 
and son-in-law, Sue Wood and Gene Wilson of Fairfield; A son and daughter-in-law, 
Forrest Edwards Jr. and Elaine Wood of Hattiesburg, Mississippi; a sister, Mrs. 
Elaine Marquardt of Cedar Creek; and four grandchildren.
  Arrangements were made by Capps Memorial Chapel of Fairfield.

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  Forrest was born at Bartlett (a town on the border of Bell and Williamson 
counties). 
  Forrest was Master of the Fairfield Lodge #103, A. F. & A. M. in 1945.

Census Records:
  1920 census for Justice Precinct 3, Bell, Texas; Sheet:7A, House:127, 
Line:19.  
  1930 Census for Bell Co., TX  - Precinct 3, Enum. Dist. 14-12, Supervisor's 
Dist. No. 17.