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Submitted: 1/13/22 • Approved: 1/13/22 • Last Updated: 1/16/22 • R481450-G481449-S3
1890-1953
*Photo, courtesy of Robert L. Jones
*Information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
WHEELER - (Special) - The body of Mrs. J.E. Wood of Wheeler will arrive by train at 8:40 a.m. in Pampa Saturday for funeral services in Wheeler Baptist Church at 3 p.m. Saturday.
Rev. Virgil Lollar, pastor of the San Angelo Baptist Church, will officiate, assisted by Rev. M.B. Smith, Wheeler Baptist minister.
Mrs. Wood, who died in Richmond, Calif., Tuesday, is the former Mrs. Minnie Cochran of Shamrock who taught school there while her husband served as pastor of the Shamrock and Kelton Baptist Churches.
Survivors include her husband of Richmond; five daughters, Mrs. Katherine Cowan, Mrs. Ora Belle Ketchum, Mrs. Georgia Stagg, Mrs. Mary Dell Dozier and Mrs. Carolyn Watkins; two stepdaughters, Mrs. Esther Hill, Wheeler, and Mrs. Harriet Cammack, San Angelo; and a nephew, L.T. Davis, Shamrock.
Pallbearers will be Claude Davis, Ed Henderson, Marvin Bradstreet, J.A. Tucker, Fred Rathjen and John Baird.
Burial will be in the Wheeler cemetery with the Kirk-Mason Funeral Home in charge.
(Published in Pampa Daily News (Pampa, Texas) - 14 Aug 1953, Fri - Page 3)
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California, Death Index, 1940-1997
Name: Minnie Cochran Wood
[Minnie Cochran Cochran]
Gender: Female
Birth Date: 24 Jun 1890
Birth Place: Arkansas
Death Date: 11 Aug 1953
Death Place: Contra Costa
Mother's Maiden Name: Collins
Father's Surname: Cochran
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