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 1889 - 1964 (74 years)
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| Name |
Rufus Woody |
| Suffix |
Sr. |
| Birth |
24 May 1889 |
Mount Pleasant, Mississippi  [1, 2] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Occupation |
Merchant [2] |
| Military |
WW I Veteran Navy [2] |
| Death |
17 Mar 1964 |
Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee [2] |
| Burial |
Houston Cemetery, Houston, Chickashaw County, Mississippi [2] |
| Person ID |
I6168 |
The Hennessee Family |
| Last Modified |
19 May 2016 |
| Family |
LaUna New, b. 20 Oct 1899, Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee d. 4 Oct 1988, Houston, Chickashaw County, Mississippi (Age 88 years) |
| Marriage |
(DeKalb County, Tennessee) [1] |
| Residence (Family) |
Forrest City, Arkansas [3] |
| Children |
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| Family ID |
F2264 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
30 Apr 2023 |
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| Notes |
- Printed in the Houston Times Post dated March 19 1964
Rites Today for Rufus Woody, Sr.
Rufus Woody, Sr., retired hardware and building materials dealer, died at 8:30 pm, Tuesday, March 17, at Kennedy General Hospital, Memphis, where he had been a patient for three weeks.
Funeral services will be conducted at 2 pm, today (Thursday) from the Houston Presbyterian Church with the Rev. Jack Maroon officiating. Interment will be in the Houston Cemetery with Houston Funeral Home in charge.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs. La Una Woody of Houston; three sons, Lt. Col. Rufus Woody, Jr., of Cannon Air Force Base, New Mexico, Walter Wesley Woody of Shannon and Joe Boyd Woody of Little Rock, Ark.; a daughter, Mrs. F S Kriger, of Houston; a brother, Charles O Woody, of Somerville, Tenn., and 16 grandchildren. Another son, Robert Carroll Woody, preceded him in death by three months.
Mr. Woody was born May 24 1889, at Mt. Pleasant, Miss., the son of John Wesley Woody and Lou Ella Woody. He was a member of the Houston Presbyterian Church, and was an elder. He was a mason.
He entered the hardware and building materials business immediately following World War I in Forrest City, Ark. It was there that his four sons and daughter were born. He lived there until all five finished school. He resided at Mountain Home, Ark., from 1948 until 1955 when he moved to Houston, and owned and operated Woody's Implement Co., for a number of years. [2]
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