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ObituariesAugust 13, 1995

EAST PRAIRIE -- Bobby Gene Woods, 59, of East Prairie, died Friday, Aug. 11, 1995, at his home of an apparent heart attack. He was born Nov. 11, 1935, in East Prairie, the son of George and Ethel Thurmond Woods. On Sept. 23, 1957, he married Mildred Marie Kirby...

EAST PRAIRIE -- Bobby Gene Woods, 59, of East Prairie, died Friday, Aug. 11, 1995, at his home of an apparent heart attack.

He was born Nov. 11, 1935, in East Prairie, the son of George and Ethel Thurmond Woods. On Sept. 23, 1957, he married Mildred Marie Kirby.

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Woods had lived in East Prairie all his life and worked as a farmer. He was a Baptist.

Survivors are his wife; three sons, Mark, Tony and Randy Woods, all of East Prairie; two daughters, Michelle Nunn and Holly Hayden, both of East Prairie; two brothers, Gene Woods of East Prairie and L.C. Woods of Kentucky; four sisters, Lela Grimes and Geneivie Haney, both of East Prairie, and Inez Newman and Joan Woods, both of Indiana; and eight grandchildren.

Service will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at Shelby Funeral Home in East Prairie with Amos Johnson officiating. Burial will be in East Prairie Memorial Park Cemetery.

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