THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Tuesday, March 28, 1995 TAG: 9503280220
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B7 EDITION: FINAL
DATELINE: EDENTON LENGTH: Short : 46 lines
James ``Jim'' Edward Wood, 94, formerly of West Gale St. in Edenton, lived at Springmoor Retirement Center and then for the last two years in the Stewart Center, both of which are in Raleigh. Mr. Wood died Sunday, March 25, 1995, in Rex Memorial Hospital, Raleigh.
Mr. Wood was married to Anne Kemp Langhorne Wood who passed away in 1975 and was the son of the late Julien Gilliam and Elizabeth Benbury Badham Wood.
After graduating from the Edenton Schools, Mr. Wood attended the Severn School in Maryland, University of North Carolina and Cornell University, and went into the Army training program. He then went to work for Van Sant-Dougdale Advertising Agency in Baltimore and returned to Edenton during the Great Depression to work and manage the Edenton Peanut Company. After, he founded Jimbo's-Jumbo's Peanut Company, which is under another ownership, and went on to form the James E. Wood and Company Peanut Brokerage.
In 1975 Mr. Wood retired and wrote many editorials for The Virginian-Pilot and the News and Observer newspapers. In the spring of 1990, he wrote Comin' around the Mountain at 90 with a Train Load of Stories, which was well received. He was also a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity, an active Rotarian and a past member in the St. Paul's Episcopal Church Vestry.
Mr. Wood is survived by three daughters, Mrs. George W. Mordecai of Raleigh, Mrs. Milo Crawford of Raleigh and Mrs. Fitzhugh L. Wickam of Front Royal, Va.; one sister, Mrs. Grice McMullan of Richmond, Va.; eight grandchildren, Edward Carlisle Carson Jr., Anne Carson Hunt, James Wood Carson, Julien Wood Mordecai, Benbury Crawford Carstensen, Milo Abercrombie Crawford, Katherine Kemp Wickham, Fitzhugh Lee Wickham III; nine great-grandchildren, Rachel Hunt, Michael Wood Hunt, Rebecca Hunt, Matthew James Hunt, Christian Alexander Carstensen, Peter Lars Carstensen, Emily Lane Crawford, Sarah Elizabeth Crawford, William Anderson Crawford; and many nephews and nieces.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. today in St. Paul's Episcopal Church with the Rev. Russell Johnson officiating. Burial will follow in Beaver Hill Cemetery. The family will receive friends at the home of Tom Wood, Mulberry Hill Plantation on Sound Side Road in Edenton. Evans Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
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