Death Notice: Lex Fernard WOOD

Youngest child of John Andrew WOOD (1883-1932) and Laura Elizabeth PARKER (1889-1970)

Lex Fernard WOOD

Birth 8 Dec 1925 in Hurricane, Washington, Utah 

Death 1 Oct 2012 in Sandy, Salt Lake, Utah

Enlisted 1943 US Navy - age 17.

Married third : Margerite FAUL 1956 (no children)
Married fourth: Mary Lou MCMILLEN GLEZOS (1972 no children)

Preceded in death by parents and all siblings:

Pictured Dec 1970: Lex Fernard WOOD (1925-2012), Iris WOOD PETERSON (1915-2004), Delna WOOD EAGAR HANSEN ALVEY (1911-2001), Roland Parker WOOD (1913-1983), Cass Shiblon WOOD (1918-1974), Chase McCray WOOD (1920-1979), Kirt DeMar WOOD (1923-1987).

The daughters of Kirt DeMar WOOD 1954 with their Uncle Lex 

Children of John Andrew WOOD and Laura Elizabeth PARKER

Laura and Andrew married in 1910, had 7 children born between 1911 and 1925 (and a still born child).

They have 16 grandchildren born between 1930 and 1966. 

John Andrew WOOD (1983-1932). Laura Elizabeth PARKER WOOD (1989-1970). 

Laura was a widow for 38 years. 

Laura Elizabeth PARKER (1889-1970)

and John Andrew WOOD (1883-1932)
Married 19 Feb 1910 in St. George, Utah

Parker WOOD and Delna WOOD 1913

Delna WOOD, Iris WOOD, Parker WOOD 1915

Iris WOOD, baby Cass WOOD, Delna WOOD, Parker WOOD 1919

Parker WOOD , Kirt DeMar "Dee" WOOD , Chase WOOD, Delna WOOD, Cass WOOD, Iris WOOD in Hurricane, Utah 1924

'Andrew' and 'Laura'

Cass and Chase WOOD

Kirt DeMar in Hurricane

1933 abt

Lex and Kirt DeMar in Salt Lake City

right side in stripes Lex in front of him is DeMar with feet up. 

Chase WOOD, Parker WOOD, Lex, Kirt "Dee" WOOD, Cass WOOD
Salt Lake City, Utah abt 1937

DeMar and Lex about 1937

USNavy 1945 Kirt DeMar and Lex WOOD

 1945 Front: 2,3 granddaughters (b. in 1930s) Emily and Jacquelyn Eagar. 

Back: Delna, Kirt DeMar, Mother Laura

 1945
R.Parker, K. DeMar, Chase, Lex

1945
K. DeMar, R. Parker, Chase, Lex

1945

Kirt DeMar and Mother Laura

R. Parker and K. DeMar WOOD

Lex and Parker WOOD

K. DeMar WOOD and Delna

Iris WOOD PETERSON, Laura Elizabeth PARKER WOOD,
Delna WOOD EAGAR HANSEN ALVEY about 1953

1953
front Kirt DeMar, Lex Fernard, back Chase McCray, Roland Parker, Cass Shiblon WOOD about 

1953 front: Roland Parker, Laura PARKER WOOD, Lex fernard back: Cass Shiblon, Kirt DeMar, Chase McCray.

mid 1950s

granddaughter Emily Jane with her son, Delna and Laura  

1954

Lex and Chase
 

1954 

Denise, Gaye, Corinne, Uncle Lex, Lark

Laura WOOD with oldest and youngest granddaughters
child in lower left is youngest granddaughter number 14 -Corinne at the (b in 1950s), 

next in white oldest granddaughter-Ferris number 1 (b.in 1930s),
center in red is daughter of Laura-Delna WOOD EAGAR ALVEY,
right in red is Laura Elizabeth PARKER WOOD abt 1954 Salt Lake City, Utah

1958

10th Grandchild with Grandma Laura

 1958 abt 

Denise, Uncle Chase, Corinne, Uncle Cass, Lark

Cass and Lex WOOD

1959

Laura, 15th grrandchild, daughter in-law Camilla

1959

Uncle Cass and Lark

1959 

Kirt DeMar and Mother Laura

1965

Laura and grandchildren numbers 10, 11, 13,14, 15  (b. in 1940s and 1950s) 

1966

Laura with her youngest grandchild number 16.

Lex Fernard WOOD (1925-2012), Iris WOOD PETERSON (1915-2004),
Delna WOOD EAGAR ALVEY (1911-2001),
Roland Parker WOOD (1913-1983), Cass Shiblon WOOD (1918-1974),
Chase McCray WOOD (1920-1979), Kirt DeMar WOOD (1923-1987)
Dec 1970, Hurricane, Utah at the time of their mothers burial

Cass, Chase and R. Parker WOOD

back: Iris, Kirt D., Mary wife of Lex, Mark great grandson, Parker, Lex

front: Roland Parker, Howard Iris's husband.

 Iris WOOD PETERSON (1915-2004), Kirt DeMar WOOD (1923-1987), 4th granddaughter Caroline PETERSON (1934-2000)

 Iris WOOD PETERSON (1915-2004), 5th granddaughter Billie Elizabeth PETERSON (1936-), Kirt DeMar WOOD (1923-1987),

School picture day - Kanarraville, Utah

Kanarraville school photo abt 1900

Laura Elizabeth PARKER (WOOD) is the young girl front row left leaning on the building. Laura was born 24 Jan 1889 one hundred and nineteen years ago. In this photo she is about 11 years old. That would date the photo at 1900.

Laura may have made her own dress if not her mother Elizabeth Ann DAVIS PARKER would have made the dress. They were both excellence seamstresses. Laura could look at a dress then make one just like it. When Laura's daughters liked a dress their friend was wearing their mother could make them one just like it. Laura did not need the pattern she could reproduce any dress she show.

In the words of Laura's daughters:
Parts of Family Journal Letter - Addressed to Kirt DeMar WOOD - Written by Iris WOOD PETERSON, 23 May 1987:

Dear brother Dee [Kirt DeMar WOOD],

[Affection]
Your feelings of Papa loving his children so very much, were indeed true, for that he did and loved Mama deeply. However she would never allow him to show it. Which mad me the opposite in my married life. Our kids remember fondly the kisses, hugs and fanny pats--very openly between Howard and myself.

[Frugal]
Mama was always frugal or should I say economical. Tried to save every penny she could. When there was a community celebration in town, Papa would slip each of us kids a dime to spend--which Mama thought was unnecessary.

I recall the only off colored remark Mama ever made. She was chewing Papa out for giving his last cent to a friend in need. Mama angrily said, Oh, Andrew, you’d give you’re a-s away .....

[Isn‘t it amazing how one breach of a parents true character has such a life long affect on a child? Iris wrote this memories when she was 72 years old. Her mother’s off color remark was made more than 56 years earlier. (Comment by Lark)]

[Loving Nurse]
But I also remember when Papa froze his ears. Mama so tenderly cared for him and treated those awful black looking ears, (which when she removed the dressings, I [Iris] fainted at the sight.)

[Seamstress]
I’m so thankful she taught me to be so economical, “no waste no want” she’d say. (Of course Howard used to grumble about my being tight.) Mama used to get remnant bundles from nail order catalogs.
When I was sixteen she had me make a dress, (my first); taught me to piece them together and cut the dress (never a pattern, mind you.) After a few tears and her supervision the finished product I was very proud to wear. Surely learned a lot. But then I must say, “Mama was the most fabulous seamstress I have ever had the privilege to know.” she could do anything.

Like the time my girl friend, Clara Spendlove purchased this expensive, slinky formal. She wanted me to have one like it; so, Mama ordered blue crepe to match, borrowed the dress to go by, (cut on the bias, so it clung to the body like a glove); by merely looking at the dress, she made mine and even nicer than the original. It was a work of art, believe me.

Then when we arrived in Salt Lake, for my senior year at South High. I didn’t have the proper clothes. Someone gave her an old coat; Mama took it apart and pieced it together--the loveliest, good looking jumper.
Her patching of clothes and darning of sox made one proud to wear [them]. There again, she taught me well; however mine do not compare to hers.

Mama was such a neat, clean housekeeper and good cook. My girl friends loved to come to our house on bake day. Her bread was “So far superior to their moms’,” they said.

[Good-Bye Papa]
Dee, you recall declining the kissing Papa Good Bye at the closing of the casket. I was not so fortunate. I do not recall who it was, but someone forced me into the room and held my head down to kiss Papa good bye, which I resented very much for I believe one should be allowed to remember them alive. (We didn‘t see Howard after death.)

[Dee was only 8 years old at the time of his father‘s death. He too resented being forced to kiss is father good bye. (Comment added by Dee‘s daughter Lark.)]

[Gratitude]
As I look back, I’m So Very Thankful for my Parents, Brothers, sister, Husband and Our Children, Grand Children and Great. I Surely have been Blessed.

With All My Love, Iris

Addition from Delna’s letter-journal (written June 1987):
[Seamstress]
{Iris was certainly right about Mama being a wonderful seamstress. She copied a dress of a friend of mine (ready made dress) and made the identical dress for me with no pattern. My friends wouldn‘t believe me a lot of the times when I would tell them my clothes were made from dresses that [Mama‘s] sisters sent. I was always so proud to wear the patches and darns she made because they were so expertly done.}

about 1952 left to right:
3. Iris WOOD PETERSON (1915-2004), Laura Elizabeth PARKER WOOD (1889-1970),
1. Delna WOOD EAGAR ALVEY (1911-2001)

[not pictured Papa - John Andrew WOOD (1883-1932)]