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Extracted from The Winn Parish Enterprise News-American (Winnfield, LA)
Thursday, March 4, 1965

Last Rites For Son Of Local Resident Held

Howard J. Woods, 50, died in a Bastrop hospital Saturday after a long illness. He was an employee of International Paper Co. of Bastrop.

Funeral services were held at 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 28, at Hurricane Grove Baptist Church near Sikes, with Rev. Harold Holland and the Rev. Ernie Yocum officiating. Burial was in the church cemetery.

Survivors are his wife; a daughter, Brenda Kay Woods of Bastrop; his mother, Mrs. Mollie Woods of Winnfield; two brothers, Wade Woods of Winnfield and Burley Woods of Thibodaux; two sisters, Miss Mollie Woods of Winnfield and Mrs. Estelle Gomez of Los Angeles, Calif.