Las Cruces Sun News

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Woodard, D

Las Cruces Sun News

Former LC Nurse Dies in Durango

Funeral services for D Woodard, a Las Cruces resident from 1956 to January, were held Sept 25 in Durango, Colo. Mrs. Woodard who died Monday at her home there, was well-known here in the nursing field.
Survivors include the widower, L. Richard Woodard, on son, David, both in Durango and one daughter, Hada, with the U.S. Naval Nursing Corps in San Diego.
Mrs. Woodard, a registered nurse, was director of nurses at Memorial General Hospital during 1957-58, she had been a supervisor and instructed Licensed practical Nursing Classes and nurses' aides' classes.
The former Las Cruces also served as first aid nurse for a number of years at the Sunalnd Race Track, was a nurse with Migrant Ministry, and Red Cross instructor and worked in city immunization programs.
A member of the local chapter , District 14, New Mexico Nurses Association, American Nurses Association, she served District 14 as president and in other offices at local, state and national levels.
Mrs. Woodard was instrumental in instituting the scholarship fund for student nurses, and thus far 13 young people have made use of it and completed their training.
She was also a member of St. James' Episcopal Church, Memorial General Hospital Auxiliary and a charter member of Las Cruces Toastmistress Club.

Additional Notes: What is not in this article since it is from the Las Cruces "Sun News", is that she taught practical nurses at the Practical Nursing School at the Mercy Hospital from 1950-1953. She was also a staff nurse in the Operating Room at the hospital.

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Dave Woodard

Corona, California

Woodard, William Clay
Durango Herald

William Clay Woodard, 82, of Bayfield, died 26 July 1966 at a local hospital after a long illness.
Born July 27, 1883 at Elsmore, Kan., Mr. Woodard moved to Allison, Colo., in 1904 and became engaged in ranching, carpentry and construction work. He was a charter member of the Allison Presbyterian Church and a former member of the I.O.O.F. Lodge and Woodmen of the World.
Mr. Woodard had lived at Bayfield since 1960. He had been ill for the past nine years and was admitted to the hospital one day prior to his death.
Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Ruby E. Woodard of Bayfield, a sister, Mrs. Lloyd Crider of Rocky ford, Colo., and several nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be at 2 P.M. Friday at Parklawn Chapel with the Rev. J. David Bechtel of the First Presbyterian Church officiating. Burial will be at Bayfield.

Additional Note: He was first married to Rose Harper who died in 1920 in Tiffany. For the purposes of Genealogy, Ruby's maiden name was either Mee or Mea. Lloyd Crider is actually Loy Crider and her name was Myrtle. He was preceded in his death by that of his brothers David Simon of Alamosa, Donald of Holly, John Max of Alamosa and his sisters Alice Anna (Mrs. James) McCoy of Pagosa Springs and Dora of Deerfield, Kansas

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Dave Woodard

Corona, California

This is the obituary for Mary Myers Woodard, mother of Donald Duncan Woodard, Wife of David S. Woodard etc. David S. Woodard is my grandfather.

La Plata County, Colorado

Mary Myers Woodard

The subject of this sketch was born on on November 28, 1888 at Milan, Sumner county, Kansas and died at Durango, Colorado, on April 21, 1913. Funeral services were conducted in the afternoon of April 26 at the home of the parents near Bayfield by the Rev. Father . . . and internment took place immediately afterward in the Bayfield cemetery.
Deceased came to Colorado with her parents and other members of the family in the year 1901, and have resided near Bayfield since that time. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Myers, highly respected citizens. On June 2, 1912 she became the wife of D. W. (sic) Woodard, a sterling young man of near Tiffany in this valley. The fruits of their love was a sweet little baby born on April 8. The young mother was in delicate health for some time prior to that event and could not survive the ordeal. The mother-less infant is being tenderly reared by its grandmother, Mrs Myers.
Mrs. Woodard was for a number of years one of the prominent educators of the Pine River valley, having taught in a number of the district schools. Her pupils testify to her superior worth, modesty and exemplary demeanor. It is hard to give up a living daughter and wife still so young, and the bereaved ones have the sympathy of a whole community.