Robert Porter Wood, Jr.

1947 - 1972  (24 years)

• Name	Robert Porter Wood
  Suffix	Jr.
  Born	15 Sep 1947	Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, USA
  Gender	Male
  Died	10 Aug 1972	Houston, Harris County, Texas, USA
  Buried	13 Aug 1972	Bryan City Cemetery - Bryan, Texas, USA
  Person ID	I124	Cody LeBlanc's Family Tree
  Last Modified	19 Dec 2023

  
  

  Family	L.J. Crow
  Children	+ 1. L.C. Wood-Brown
  Last Modified	9 Apr 2015
  Family ID	F42	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 15 Sep 1947 - Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, USA Died - 10 Aug 1972 - Houston, Harris County, Texas, USA Buried - 13 Aug 1972 - Bryan City Cemetery - Bryan, Texas, USA  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Photos		Robert Porter Wood, Jr. 1963 Stephen F. Austin High School Yearbook Photo Bryan, Texas, USA
  		Robert Porter Wood, Jr. 1964 Stephen F. Austin High School Yearbook Photo Bryan, Texas, USA

  
  

  Documents » Slide Show		Death Certificate for Robert Porter Wood, Jr. Name: Robert Porter Wood Junior Birth Date: 15 Sep 1947 Birth Place: Texas Gender: Male Race: White Residence: Bryan, Brazos, Texas Father: Robert P. Wood Mother: Jane Morrison Age at Death: 24 Death Date: 11 Aug 1972 Death Place: Houston, Harris, Texas Cause of Death: Broken Neck; Fell from boat
  		Obituary of Robert Porter Wood, Jr. Published in The Bryan Eagle on August 13, 1972
  		Memorial Fund for Robert Porter Wood, Jr. Published in The Bryan Eagle on August 15, 1972

  
  

  Headstones

  Headstone of Robert Porter Wood, Jr. 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)