Bill Woods, Class of 1952, passed away Thursday, Aug. 27 at his Fort Wayne, Indiana home. His widow is Dorothy Browning Woods, Class of 1955, who is a Registered Nurse.
Bill was the 1952 Monongah High
Black Diamond yearbook editor and in the senior class play, “My Cousin From
Texas.”
Bill’s siblings are John Woods, Class
of 1957, of Raleigh, North Carolina, and Shirley Woods DeMarco Merchant, Class
of 1953, a schoolteacher in Akron, Ohio. Another sibling, Harriet Jane Woods, Class of 1949, predeceased Bill.
Bob Jones University graduate John is an IBM retiree living in
Raleigh, North Carolina. His wife, Ardyss, who was from Maine, passed away last
November. John was on the 1955 Mononongah High state champions football team.
John and Bill Meredith, Class of 1955, were teammates, classmates and good
friends from first grade at East Monongah Grade School through Monongah High
School. Their families attended Monongah Baptist Church.
Bill’s obituary:
Clarence William “Bill” Woods
Jr., 81, passed away Thursday, August 27, 2015 at his home in Fort Wayne.
Born in Monongah, WV,
Clarence was a veteran of the U.S. Army and a graduate of West Virginia
University. He was a Manufacturing Manager with General Electric until his
retirement in 1995. He was a regular attendee of The Chapel and was a Talking
Book Repair Volunteer from 1998 to 2014.
Surviving are his wife,
Dorothy J. Woods of Fort Wayne; son, William B (Kate) Woods of Grayslake, IL;
son, Robert L. (Chris) Woods of Lebanon, OH; daughter, Sharon D. Ringenberg of
Fort Wayne; 13 grandchildren; 2 great grandchildren; brother, John Woods of
Raleigh, NC; and sister, Shirley (Fred) Merchant of Akron, OH.
Clarence was preceded in
death by his parents, Clarence Sr., and Helen Woods.
Funeral Service is at
6:00 pm, Saturday, August 29, 2015 at D.O. McComb & Sons Covington Knolls
Funeral Home, 8325 Covington Road with calling from 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm prior.
Memorials may be made to the Community Harvest Food Bank.
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