Charles Lee Wood

WOOD, KNEEDLER, HINES, BYERS, MILLETTE

Posted By: Teresa Wood (email)
Date: 5/31/2024 at 21:02:00

A celebration of life for Charles “Chuck” L. Wood, 95, formerly of Sioux Falls who passed away Sat., Jan. 1, 2022 at Echo Hills Providence Place in Omaha, will be held on Tuesday, Jan. 4 at 11 a.m. at Holy Spirit Catholic Church, 3601 E. Dudley Lane, Sioux Falls. The service will be live streamed at the Holy Spirit YouTube website.
Masks and social distancing will be practiced. Inurnment will be at a later date at Calvary Cemetery in Sioux City. (Held June 11, 2022).
Chuck was born to Hobart and Abbie Kneedler Wood on Sept. 29, 1926 in Sioux City. He was immediately followed by twin sister, Constance.
Chuck attended Hunt Elementary School, Central High School and Morningside College. He proudly served in the United States Army Air Corps during World War II and travelled on the Midwest Honor Flight to Washington, DC in 2019.
After jobs with the US Postal Service, the Sioux City Stockyards, Schilling Spices and Cudahy Meat Packing Company, he took a position with Benedict and Oosterhuis of Sioux Falls as a food broker, a position he held until he and Jim Westra bought the company in 1980. The company had offices in Sioux City and Sioux Falls and covered the territories of North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Minnesota, Iowa and Missouri.
He married Mary Ann Hines at the Cathedral of the Epiphany in Sioux City in 1950. To this union five children were born: Connie Mahan, Mount Pleasant, SC; Tom Wood, Omaha; Teresa Wood (Greg Gilsdorf), Omaha; Amy (Tony) Gale, Des Moines; and Hobie Wood (Bethany Golombeski), Dubuque, Iowa.
He married Dolores “Dodie” Dillon Byers in 1971. They had one child together, Charley (Patty) and Chuck became stepfather to the Byers children: Matthew (Alison), Lawrenceburg, KY; Christopher (d); John (Anne), Lincoln, NE; Sara (John) Gallagher, Bennington, NE: and Mary Andrews. Dodie died in 1989.
Chuck married Bernadine “Birdie” Millette in 1992 in Sioux Falls and was welcomed into the family by her four children David (Rosemary) Millette, Robert Millette (d) (Jill m. Dave Rowe), Karen (Jeff) Reiter all of Sioux Falls, and Janet (George) Studdert, Sonoma, CA.
Chuck leaves behind 24 grandchildren and 26 great grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by: his parents, sisters Virginia (Robert) Snowden, Peggy (Jim) DuBois and Connie (Bob) Temple; former wife Mary Ann, wives Dodie and Birdie; stepson Christopher; and grandson SFC Edwin C.L. Wood.
Memorials may be directed to O’Gorman High School, McCrossans Boys Ranch or the NRA