William Clair Woods

1926 - 1990  (63 years)

• Name	William Clair Woods
  Birth	25 Jun 1926	Sundance, Crook, WY
  Gender	Male
  Census	19 Apr 1930	Raven Creek, Weston, WY
  	age 3, born WY, living with parents
  Census	18 Apr 1940	Newcastle, Weston, WY
  	age 13, born WY, living with parents
  Death	1990	Sundance, Crook, WY
  Burial	Moorcroft Cemetery, Moorcroft, WY
  Person ID	I19103	Family Tree
  Last Modified	18 Nov 2017

  
  

  Father	Lester Valentine Woods,   b. 7 Apr 1881, Clarke Co, IA d. 5 Dec 1941, Newcastle, Weston, WY (Age 60 years)
  Mother	Vesta Gertrude Roach,   b. 6 Jan 1884, Springfield, Sangamon, IL d. 22 May 1976, Brownsville, Cameron, TX (Age 92 years)
  Marriage	22 Oct 1908	Lead, Lawrence, SD
  Notes	from "South Dakota, Marriages, 1905-2016" (ancestry.com) On 22 Oct Oct 1908 in Lead, Lawrence, SD, L.V. Woods, 27, residing Scenic, Penn, SD, married Vesta G Roach, 24, residing Scenic, Penn, SD. 1st marriage for both.
  Family ID	F7055	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  from newspaper obituary (posted by Cheryl Chatfield Thompson on findagrave.com) Services for William C. "Bud" Woods, 64, Sundance, will be at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the Crook County Nursing Home Chapel in Sundance with David Dick officiating. Woods died Tuesday evening at Crook County Memorial Hospital in Sundance after a long illness. Burial will be in the Moorcroft Cem. under direction of the Fidler-Roberts Northeastern Wyoming Funeral Chapel of Sundance. A memorial has been established for the Crook County Nursing Home. He was born June 25, 1926, in Sundance to Lester and Vesta (Roach) Woods. He attended school in Newcastle and Upton. He spent most of his life as a truck driver. He married Charlotte Krause of Moorcroft Oct. 22, 1947, and the couple had two girls. He later married Ann Senke of Upton and the couple had two boys, one of whom died at birth. He had been a nursing home resident for the past two years, moving there from Moorcroft. Survivors include a daughter, Lou Ann Hansen of Sheridan; a son, Troy Mettler of Upton; seven grandchildren; four sisters, Marian Wilbur of Peoria, Ariz., Maxine Sorter of Brownsville, Texas, Patsy Petersen of San Diego, Calif., and Eleanor "Kewpie" Plemmons of Fort Bridger; a brother, Tom Woods of Upton; and a special friend, Ledel Baker of Moorcroft. He was preceded in death by a son in infancy and a daughter, Lyndee; a brother, Jack; and a sister, Merle. Newspaper name and date omitted from this article.