Robert Porter Wood, Jr.
1947 - 1972 (24 years)
Generation: 1
1. Robert Porter Wood, Jr. was born 15 Sep 1947, Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, USA; died 10 Aug 1972, Houston, Harris County, Texas, USA; was buried 13 Aug 1972, Bryan City Cemetery - Bryan, Texas, USA. Notes:
Obituary:
Boat Accident Victim's Services Slated Today
Funeral services for Porter Wood, 24, of 2000 Cavitt Ave., Bryan, who suffered a fatal injury in a freak boating accident last Saturday, will be held at 2 p.m. today in Memorial Funeral Chapel.
The Rev. Harral Dunnam, associate pastor of First United Methodist Church, will officiate. Burial will be in Bryan City Cemetery.
WOOD EITHER FELL or dove into Lake Somerville from a boat. He hit the bottom of the lake, breaking his neck.
The Somerville volunteer ambulance service took Wood to St. Joseph Hospital and he was later transferred to Houston's Methodist Hospital where he died Saturday morning.
Wood was born Sept. 15, 1947, in Fort Worth and was a resident of Brazos County most of his life. He was an accountant with Burst, Wood & Ingram, a Bryan certified public accountant firm and a graduate of Bryan public schools and Sam Houston State College.
The family has requested donations be made to the Brazos Valley Rehabilitation Center.
SURVIVORS INCLUDE his wife, Linda; one daughter, Linda Christine Wood of Bryan; two brothers, Eugene Thomas Wood and John F. Wood, both of Bryan; one sister, Freda Jane Wood of Bryan; parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Wood of Bryan; maternal grandmother, Mrs. E.E. Tucker of Elkhart, and paternal grandmother, Mrs. Oakley Morrison of Galveston.
Pallbearers include Mike Butler, Brian Lott, John Raney, Mike Beal, Douglas Cromeens, Kenneth Anderson, Bobby Hill and Jack Thrash.
(Published in The Bryan Eagle on August 13, 1972)Robert married L.J. Crow [Group Sheet]
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