Carrie M. Wood, 91

McMinnville resident and Zebulon, Ga., native Carrie W. Wood, 91, died Sept. 1 at Cookeville Regional Hospital after an extended illness.

A homemaker retired from the Agriculture Expanded Nutrition Program and a member of the NAACP, the Home Demonstration Club and Martin Chapel United Methodist Church, she helped organize Pleasant Hill CIC and maintain Bethlehem Cemetery..

The daughter of the late Charles and Mattie Dix Phinazee, she was preceded in death by her husband, Malcolm R. Wood; and son, Algoma Perry Wood.

She is survived by sons and daughters-in-law, Clarence and Elosie Wood, Harold and Ruby Wood, James and Carrie Wood, William Phillip Wood, Paul and Sharon Wood, all of Cleveland, Ohio, Carlous Wood, Luther and Barbara Jean Wood, Orbin and Sue Mae Wood, all of McMinnville, Henry and Hattie Linda Wood of Cookeville; daughters and sons-in-law, Dorothy and Russell Ramsey of McMinnville, Manila M. and Charles Marshall, Catherine F. Young, Yvonne Young and Mary L. Wood, all of Cleveland, Ohio; several grandchildren, several great-grandchildren, nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.

Services will be held at 1 p.m. Tuesday at Love-Cantrell & Cope Funeral Home with Rev. Shirley Rayford officiating. Burial will follow at Bethlehem Cemetery at Martin Charge. A wake will be held from noon to 1 p.m. Tuesday at Love-Cantrell & Cope.

Love-Cantrell Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Southern Standard
(McMinnville, Tenn.) Sept. 4, 2005