THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Wednesday, September 7, 1994 TAG: 9409070368
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Floyd Bernett Woodson, 69, of Route 1, Barboursville, died Sunday morning, Sept. 4, 1994, in the Martha Jefferson Hospital at Charlottesville.
Born May 29, 1925, in Brunswick, Ga., he was a son of the late Henry Herbert Woodson and Catherine Bernett Woodson.
Mr. Woodson was raised at Rockfish Depot in Nelson County and attended Maury High School in Norfolk and Georgia Tech. He joined the Marine Corps in 1943 and was educated in the field of radar by the Marines at Texas A&M and was assigned to AIDS-1, the only radar organization fielded by the Marines in World War II. He was twice decorated during the war. He participated in establishing Marine Corps Reserve programs, teaching electronics at NAS in Norfolk. He was recalled to active duty during the Korean Conflict and became a NAV-AIDS engineer with ITT Gilfillon and spent four years establishing all weather aviation capability in the Far East and an additional five years in Europe. Upon returning to the United States he was director of all Weather Capability for Missile Launching at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., and later established an experimental aviation facility for the FAA at Atlantic City, N.J. In 1963 he became more directly associated with the FAA and became a leader as a research and development engineer. He later became project engineer for First Automated Enroute System at Indianapolis Center which led to automation of all Enroute Centers. He was a systems engineer at Command Control Facility at JFK Airport in New York. He retired from the FAA in 1985 and became a consulting engineer on FAA Systems and Electronics.
He is survived by his wife, Frances Bishop Woodson of Norfolk; two sons, Brian J. Woodson of Charlottesville and Eric F. Woodson of San Diego, Calif.; a stepdaughter, Lisa W. Kayati of Charlottesville; two brothers, Albert T. Woodson of Monterey and William D. Woodson of Dunnellon, Fla.; a sister, Virginia W. Crowder of Norfolk and several cousins in the Rockfish Depot Community of Nelson County as well as Scottsville.
A service will be held Thursday at 2 p.m. in Rockspring United Methodist Church at Faber with the Rev. Henry Andrews officiating. Burial will be in Rock Spring Cemetery. The family will receive friends in the church social hall from 1:30 p.m. until time of service and suggest that those wishing to make memorial contributions consider the Highland Medical Center, Inc. at P.O. Box 490, Monterey, Va. 24465. Funeral arrangements are under the direction of Wells/Sheffield Funeral Chapel of Lovingston.
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