MYRTLE L. WOOD

SIKESTON -- Myrtle Lee Wood, 92, formerly of Sikeston, died Tuesday, Jan. 4, 1994, at Sells Rest Home in Matthews.

She was born Feb. 3, 1901, in Graves County, Ky., daughter of Henry W. and Mary E. Taylor Mitchell. She and William Earnest Wood were married in December 1919 in Mayfield, Ky. He died in 1970.

Wood had been a cook at Sikeston Public Schools, and member of Shady Acres Church of Christ.

Survivors include a daughter, Jane Gage of Mounds, Ill.; two sisters, Nova Clark of East Chicago, Ind., Georgia Avakian of Webster, Mass.; six grandsons, and seven great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by a son, six brothers and a sister.

Funeral service will be at 1 p.m. Thursday at Nunnelee Funeral Chapel. John Hoover and Pat Hogan will officiate, with burial in Blodgett Cemetery at Blodgett.

Friends may call at the funeral home after 5 p.m. today.