Woody, Hoyt – 1908-1988

BRODERSEN, DISCH, GARDNER, SHORT, WOODY

Posted By: Donna Sloan Rempp
Date: 8/27/2016 at 18:55:11

Services Held
Hoyt Woody, 80, of Reasnor, Grand Master of the Masonic Grand Lodge of Iowa in 1964 and 1965 died Friday Nov. 4, near his home southeast of Reasnor.
Funeral services were held at Tuesday, November 8 at the Monroe Presbyterian Church.
The Revs. Roger and Gretchen Graf, co-pastors of the church, conducted services.
Masonic services were conducted by Lavern Clary, past Master of the Grand Lodge of Iowa.
Memorials to the William C. Knapp Endowment for Homeless Children may be left at the funeral home.
Survivors are his wife, Martha; four sons, William C. of Phoenix, Ariz., Jerry R. of Reasnor, Joe M. of Rochester, N.Y., and Raymond P. of Fairfield; three daughters, Kay M. Disch of Sioux Center, Janet K. Short of Osceola and Irma B. Woody of Des Moines; 18 grandchildren, and six great grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents, two brothers and three sisters.
Mr. Woody, a retired farmer, also was Grand Tyler of the Masonic Grand Lodge of Iowa in 1954 and senior Grand Warden in 1957 and 1958 and served on the board of custodians for the Grand Lodge of Iowa.
He was a member of the Monroe Presbyterian Church and the Monumental Lodge 311 of Galesburg, and the Beulah chapter of the Order of Eastern Star of Grinnell and served on the Reasnor Telephone board and rural school boards.
The son of Henry and Ella Brodersen Woody, he was born Oct. 19, 1908 in Jasper County and was educated in rural and Newton Community High School.
He was married to Martha Gardner March 17, 1934 in Newton.
Source: Monroe Mirror; 10 November 1988