Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SUNDAY, June 20, 1993 TAG: 9306210242
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: E3 EDITION: METRO
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DATELINE: LEXINGTON LENGTH: Medium
OBIT WOOD, NANNIE WALKER
WOOD, Nannie Walker, of Lexington, died Friday, June 18, 1993, in a
Philidelphia, Pennslyvania hospital. She was the second child born to the late
Harry L. Walker and the late Eliza Bannister Walker, January 7, 1900, in
Rockbridge County. At the age of 7 she became a member of the First Baptist
Church where she maintained her membership for 86 years. In March of this
year, due to illness, she moved to Philidelphia to live with two of her sons
and united with the Vine Memorial Baptist Church on April 11, 1993. Mrs. Wood
received her early education in the public school of Lexington and later
attended Hartshorn College for Women in Richmond, which later became a part of
Virginia Union University. She was married for 48 years to the late Clarence
M. Wood Sr. Her affiliations include the Helen Gooch Memorial Missionary
Society, the Lady's Auxiliary of First Baptist Church and she was a past
member of Aeolian Chorus. Other affiliations include the Links Inc., the
Garden Club, the Six O'clock Club, and NAACP. Her survivors include four sons,
Harry W. Wood, Lexington, Clarence M. Wood Jr. and Alexander B. Wood, both of
Philidelphia, and Edward T. Wood, Old Westbury, N.Y.; a daughter, Mrs. Bette
Jo Swann, Richmond; eleven grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; two
great-great-grandchildren; two sons-in-law; three daughters-in-law. The body
will lie in-state at the Wood Resident (Blandome) in Lexington, where friends
may call on Tuesday evening from 6 until 8 p.m. The body will be moved to the
First Baptist Church on Wednesday at 12 noon where it may be viewed until the
funeral service hour at 2 p.m. Rev. J. Dennis Rose will deliver the eulogy.
Interment will follow in Evergreen Cemetery. J.B. Lewis Funeral Service is
handling the arrangements.
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