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Note: The Howard Courant-Citizen, Howard, Kansas Thursday, February 28, 1946 Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Woods, who have lived northeast of Howard for a number of years, moved this week to a farm near Longton. Bill and Gladys Woods adopted Shirley and Anna Mae Jackson in 1947. OBITUARY HARMON HAROLD (BILL) WOODS, of rural Longton, KS died on Wednesday, September 25, 1963 at the St. Joseph Hospital in Wichita, KS. at the age of 57 years, 7 months and 14 days. He was born on Feb. 11, 1906 at Fair Play, MO., a son of Oscar and Ida Frances Davis Woods. He was one of a family of seven children, of which there were five boys and two girls. He was reared on a farm near Fair Play, Missouri and graduated from Bear Creek, Mo., High school. Always an industrious, honest and courageous young fellow, he left home at the age of 22 and came to Elk County, KS in 1928. He went to work for Wes McCoskey and while there he met and fell in love with a neighbor girl, Gladys Armstrong, and they were married on January 27, 1934. They lived on farms near Howard until 1946, when they moved to the Longton vicinity. That same year they adopted two young girls, sisters, whom they welcomed into their home and hearts as their very own. They educated these daughters and the oldest one, Shirley Ann, is married and has given them two grandchildren. The youngest one, Anna Mae, is at home with her mother. Bill, as he was called by his friends and neighbors, was an outstanding citizen. He was a member of the Methodist Church at Longton; president of the Longton Free Fair; vice president of the Kansas Wolf and Fox Association; a member of the Masonic Lodge No. 26, AF&AM; the Eastern Star, Order No. 282; a director of the Kansas State Fair board; member of the Longton Chamber of Commerce, the Cove Grange No. 1919 and the Elk County Livestock and Cattlemen's Association. As a neighbor, he could be called upon at any time to assist in any needed project. Surviving are his widow Gladys; two daughters, Mrs. Shirley Kim of Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan and Miss Anna May Wood of the Home; two brothers, Lewis of Bolivar, MO, and Leonard L. of Rozel; a sister Mrs. Lala Hammons, Fair Play, MO. and two grandchildren. Services will be held Friday in the Spurrier-Watt chapel in Howard with Rev. Dean Brown of the Howard Baptist church officiating. Casket Bearers will be George Barnes, Joy Jackson, Gilbert O'Dell, Howard Baughman, Everett Moore and Ed Henry. Interment will be in Grace Lawn cemetery at Howard.
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