Harry Trigg Wood |
| Posted 2009-04-02 by Sharon |
| The Wickenburg Sun, Wickenburg, AZ March 19, 2008, p. A 11 Harry Trigg Wood was born on May 22, 1913 in Woodson, Texas, a town named after his great grandfather, who founded the town in the 1800s on land that the family owned. O.J. Wood gave away land to banks, churches and schools, and founded Woodson State Bank. The town today is a quiet and sleepy village. Harry’s parents, Cuvier Lipscomb (Cue) Wood and Mabel Calahan Wood, owned meat packing plants and an electric power plant in Texas, a cotton gin in Woodson, Texas, and an ice plant in Florida through the prosperous 1910s and 1920s. The family’s fortunes were greatly changed during the Great Depression. The family consolidated its holdings into a 600-acre farm in Artesia, N.M., shortly after the stock market crash in 1929. Harry, then 16, worked on the farm with his father. The first year was a bumper crop and economically rewarding. The Wood family doubled its plantings the following year, but the Depression made that crop worthless, and the family fortune was depleted. Harry, Cue, and Harry’s brother J.O. went to work in the oil fields. Harry served in the U.S. Army during World War II in General Patton’s 3rd Army and was in the Battle of the Bulge. After the war, he worked as a driller for oil and water in most of the Western states. Harry was a kind and gentle soul, and will be greatly missed. Harry Trigg Wood died in Wickenburg on Feb. 29, 2008. He is survived by his nephew Clarence Leon Wood of Watsonville California; his niece Betty Watson of San Antonio, Texas; his nephew George Ernest Wilson, Jr.; and niece Sharon Sue Wilson; his great-nieces and nephews Lori Wood and Susan Wood of Watsonville, Calif., Mark Bradford Schreiber and Jeffrey Frank Schreiber, Michael Keith Wilson, Nicky Allen Wilson, Anthony Glenn Wilson and Holly Brentz Winstead; and his great-great-nieces and great-great-nephews Mallory Smith and Quinn Smith, Erin Elizabeth Whitehead and Bradford Hughes Schreiber, Jeffrey Ian Schreiber and Heather Melody Bird, Lisa Beth Schreiber, Broudon Wilson and Benjamin Wilson, Bryan Allen Dodson, and Marc Schriber; and his great-great-great-nieces and nephews Kelsea Elizabeth Bird and Cole Hudson Bird. Funeral arrangements were handled by David’s Desert Chapel. |
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