Woodyard, Seneca – d. 1974

GOODMAN, MAHLER, OWENS, WOODYARD

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Date: 9/25/2016 at 19:04:37

Colfax Man Dies Rather Than Face Court Charges
Pleading by authorities for more than a half hour Tuesday was to no avail when a Colfax man pointed a .25 automatic pistol to his head and fired.
Seneca Woodyard, 71; died of the gunshot would at 1 a.m. today at Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines.
Sheriff’s deputies went to the Woodyard residence about 4 p.m. Tuesday to issue a bench warrant for Woodyard’s appearance in district court on a sodomy charge.
Deputy Jim Verwers said Woodyard refused to open the screen door and told him (Verwers) and other officers at the scene, what he planned to do.
Source: Newton Daily News; Wednesday, September 3, 1975, page2, col. 7

Seneca Woodyard Services Are Set for Friday
COLFAX – Graveside rites for Seneca Woodyard, 72, of Colfax will be held at 10 a.m. Friday at the Mckeever Cemetery north of Colfax.
The Rev. Dick Clark, pastor of the Colfax United Methodist Church, will conduct services.
Survivors are two sisters, Mrs. Leonard (Edna) Owens of Colfax and Mrs. Elizabeth Mahler of Abbeyville, S.C.; and a brother, George Woodyard of Los Angeles, Calif.
Mr. Woodyard, a veteran of World War II, was employed by Frank Rozenbaum and Sons until his retirement.
The son of Samuel and Winifred Goodman Woodyard, he was born Dec. 4, 1903 at Colfax.
Mr. Woodyard died Wednesday at the Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines.
McKeever Source: Newton Daily News; September 4, 1974, page 6, col. 3