Extracted from The Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, MS)
Monday, May 4, 1959

MISS ELSIE WOODS
Local Girl Dies After Long Illness

Miss Elsie Woods, 18, of 926 Bailey Ave., died Sunday at 6:00 a.m. in the Baptist Hospital after an extended illness.

She was born and reared in Jackson, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jessie E. Woods, and was a student at Central High School.

She is survived by her parents; three brothers, Grady and Bobby Woods both of Jackson and Billy Woods of Dallas, Tex.; and two sisters, Mrs. Ruth Hodges of Shreveport, La., and Mrs. Shirley Shelley of Jackson.

Funeral services will be conducted Monday afternoon at 4 from the Baldwin Funeral Chapel with Major D. F. Hall of the Salvation Army officiating.

Interment will be in the Cedarlawn Cemetery.