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Obituary: James Woody, 91, educator, businessman, farm leader Mr. Woody was a respected teacher, businessman, farm lender and Adair County farm leader James Woody, 91, Columbia, KY, died early Wednesday morning, October 24, 2007, at the Golden Age Retirement Home. The funeral service will be Saturday, October 27, 2007, at 11:00amCT, at Grissom-Martin Funeral Home, with Bro. Raymond Martin officiating. Burial will be in Columbia Cemetery. A native of Laurel County, Ky he was the son of the late William Wyatt and Myrtie Mae Miller Woody. He was preceded in death by his wife, Emma Brenda Woody, in 1998. He is survived by the following:
Visitation will be after 4:30pm, Friday, October 26, 2007, at Grissom-Martin Funeral Home, 200 Campbellsville Street, Columbia, KY.Casket bearers: Randall Banks, John Ballou, Robert Flowers, Mike Glasgow, J.C. Lasley, and Dwayne Loy. Honorary pallbearers: Calvin Aaron, Bill Ballou, Jr.; Charles Barnes, Marilyn Coffey Jr. Corbin, Shirley Glasgow, Grover Gilpin, and Cathy Martin.Grissom-Martin Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. His contributions to, and life in Adair County James Woody was a graduate of Berea College. He settled in Columbia as a young man in the early 1940s with his wife, the fomer Emma Brenda of Ottenheim, KY, who was also Berea-educated. Both taught at Columbia High School, just a few yards from the home they built and where they raised their three children. Mrs. Woody was the school's German and Latin teacher, an he was the high school's Smith-Hughes Act vocational agriculture teacher. Later, he continued in the same position at Adair County High School, when Columbia and Adair County Schools were merged in 1954. He was a successful farmer, with extensive land holdings at various times, including a partnership in what was once considered the best of Adair County's Green River valley farms and owned, at times, other productive acreage in Adair County. Mr. Woody was manager and chief loan officer of Production Credit Association (PCA) in Columbia for many years. He was also a founding partner and long time owner, with Shirley Glasgow, of the Columbia Southern States store, Adair Farmer's Service, which continues to operate to this day. Perhaps Mr. Woody's biggest impact on this community was the role he played in helping to transform an Adair County farm economy from one struggling to survive on a single major cash crop, tobacco, to one which thrived with the growth of a dairy industry which continues to rank in the top tier of Kentucky milk-production counties. A Columbia street, Woody Avenue, is named in honor of Mr. Woody, his wife, and family. This obituary was made possible through the support of Grissom-Martin Funeral Home, established in 1926, located one block off the square at 200 Campbellsville Street in Columbia. To reach David and Cathy Martin, phone 270-384-2149, or E-mail: grissomfuneralhome@alltel.net. Large enough to serve comfortably; Small enough to serve personally.ts. This story was posted on 2007-10-25 15:31:37
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