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Winston Wood Winston
Wood, 75, of 604 E. 3rd St. S. Apt. 1, died of a heart attack Friday. Dec. 21,
at Skiff Medical
Center in Newton. Funeral
services will be Thursday at 11 a.m. at Kale Funeral Home in Osceola with Pastor
Brian Hardee and Pastor Kenneth Van Loon officiating. Burial will be at Smyrna
Cemetery in Clarke County. Visitation will be Wednesday after 9 am, at the
funeral home and from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. with the family prior to services.
Memorials to the Leon Bible Church or Immanuel Baptist Church in Newton will be
accepted. The
son of Earl E. and Luella Wallace Wood, he was born Dec. 31, 1925, near Weldon.
He graduated from LeRoy Consolidated School In 1943. He married Margaret Jean
Sparks on June 27, l948, in Paonia, Colo.
Mr.,
Wood farmed for 23 years in Weldon and Osceola. He also worked as a painter in
Osceola after leaving farming in 1975. He served in the United States Navy from
1943 to 1946. Mr. Wood served on the Farmers Co-op Board of Directors, the
Clarke Electric Board of Directors and the Clarke Farm Bureau Board of
Directors. He was a member of the
Smyrna Friends Church, the Osceola Calvary Baptist Church, the Independent Bible
Church in Leon, and the Immanuel Baptist Church in Newton. Mr. Wood was a
resident of Newton since 1998. Survivors
include his wife, a son and daughter-in-law, Marvin Dean and Donna of Del Rio,
Texas, a daughter and son-in-law, Katherine Luella Hembry and Mike of Newton,
six grandchildren and a sister-in-law, Betty Wood of Canon City, Colo. He
was preceded in death by his parents, two brothers and a sister. Newton Daily News, Newton, IA, December 24, 2001. |
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