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Show Services Held Monday For Holden Resident Funeral services were held Monday Mon-day at 2 p. m. in the Holden ward chapel for John Wood, 82, a resident resi-dent for the past 80 years. Mr. Wood died Saturday at his home in Holden. Mr. Wood was born in Deseret April 8, 1866, a son of Charles and Ann Day Wood, early settlers there The family moved to Holden when he was 2 years old, and his home had been there since. He was in business in Holden from 1902 to 1940, when he retired. He had also been Holden postmaster for 26 years. An active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Mr. Wood had held a number of church positions, and was a counselor coun-selor in Holden ward. He had served ser-ved as a Holden school trustee, county road supervisor, and president presi-dent of the Holden town board for four years. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Maria Ashby Wood, whom he married in the Manti temple Sept. 2, 1888; sons and daughters, Mrs. Lula Dobson, Leonard A. Wood, Mrs. Florence Stephenson, Harold A. and Reed A. Wood, Mrs. Nina DeBlois, all of Holden; Ralph A. Wood, Fillmore; Mrs. Maria Whit-aker, Whit-aker, Kanosh; Mrs. Alice Raymond, Ogden; a brother, Fred A. Wood, Holden; a sister, Mrs. Sarah Ann McKell, Spanish Fork; 43 grandchildren grand-children and 20 great-grandchildren. Burial was in the Holden cemetery. |
