GEORGE EUGENE WOOD 1937-2006
PETERSON, WOOD, EDDY, EVANSON BRESNAHAN, HALLING
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Date: 7/1/2006 at 16:12:48
George Wood
George E. Wood, 69, of Waterville, Iowa, died Wednesday, May 10, 2006, at Gundersen Lutheran Hospital in La Crosse, Wis. Funeral services were held Saturday, May 13, at Waterville Lutheran Church in Waterville, with Pastor Laura Gentry officiating. Burial was in the church cemetery. Martin Funeral Home in Waukon was in charge of arrangements.
George Eugene Wood was born in rural Lansing, Iowa, March 23, 1937, the son of Eugene Aaron and Martina Lillian (Peterson) Wood. He was baptized and confirmed at Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church in Lansing. George attended Center Township No. 1 rural school and graduated from Lansing High School in 1955. His early work consisted of farming with his father and helping to install the steel floor on the Blackhawk Bridge at Lansing.
December 1, 1957, he married Sharon Jean Eddy at Old East Paint Creek Lutheran Church in rural Waterville. They started by farming on halves with Lester “Bill” Thomson near Elon for a few years. In 1962 they purchased a farm in Paint Creek Township near Waterville and began raising grain, hogs, and beef cattle as well as operating a dairy herd. Their daughter Sheryl and her husband Steve joined the operation in 1989, although George continued to remain active on the farm.
George was a loyal member of Waterville Lutheran Church where he held numerous leadership positions over the years and also served as youth sponsor. He was also a long-time member of the Waterville Volunteer Fire Department and a former FHA board member. His hobbies included raising horses on the farm, bowling in leagues in Lansing and Waukon, and riding with the Allamakee Snowblazers snowmobiling club. In recent years he had become an accomplished woodworker and enjoyed making things for his family and friends. Family was important to George and he liked following the activities of his children and grandchildren. Throughout his life he maintained a love of the Mississippi River. He fished and boated there all his life and for more than 20 years, he and Sharon have enjoyed wonderful times with their family and special friends on the houseboats they kept in Lansing.
Survivors include his wife Sharon of Waterville; four daughters, Donna Jean Wood of Platteville, Wis., Sheryl (Steve) Evanson and Sandra (Sean) Bresnahan, both of Waterville, and Carolyn (Jon) Halling of Eagan, Minn.; a nephew he raised as a son, Duane (Eileen Fahey) Wood of Waukon; 14 grandchildren; and three brothers, Kenneth (Vickie) of Cedar Rapids, John (Sharon) of Harpers Ferry, and Walter (Carol) of Mineral Point, Wis.
He was preceded in death by his parents.
Honorary casketbearers were Maurice and Kay Mooney, Paul and Diane Sorenson, Martin and Joanne Odneal, Stewart Groves, Maureen and Steve Thode, Jim and Natalie Baugher, Dick and Donna Reed, George and Jean Huffey, and Lloyd and Ruby Olson. Casketbearers were Doc Weymiller, Dave Wilson, Rudy Hesla, Roger Ellefson, Jim Christensen, Jim Christianson, Carl Thompson, and Bart Hamm.
Waukon Standard, May 17, 2006
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