Born in Newnan, GA, she was the daughter of the late Lena Ellard Dewberry and Homer Lee Kendrick. Mrs. Wood graduated from East Coweta High School in 1954. A strong believer in education, over the next 22 years she doggedly pursued her undergraduate degree, completing one year each at Rheinhardt College (now University) (1955) in Waleska, Ga, Emmanuel College (1956) in Franklin Springs, Ga, where she first met the love of her life, Cliff Wood, and received an Associate of Arts degree, Georgia State University, in Atlanta, and, finally, received her Bachelor of Science degree from Central Connecticut State College in 1977. She was the first in her family to attend college and receive a four-year degree.

In 1959, she married her husband of 51 years, Cliff Wood. She and her family lived in Smyrna, GA, New Hartford, CT, Flower Mound, TX, Frederick, MD, and Conyers, GA until Cliff's retirement in 1999, when she and Cliff moved to Columbia to be near grandchildren and other family. Whether it was hoeing and picking cotton on her widowed-mother's farm as a young girl, traveling and camping around the United States with her sons, touring Western Europe with grandchildren, teaching Sunday School or English and Grammar to her students during various stints as a tutor or teacher, or principally serving as a homemaker, she never shunned the difficult; "bored" was banished from her vocabulary. Together, she and Cliff quietly served their family, friends, neighbors, and churches as they followed Cliff's work from place to place. She deeply cherished the many friendships made at each place she lived. She was a member of Northeast Presbyterian Church and the JOY Sunday School class.

Mrs. Wood was preceded in death by her husband, Cliff Wood, her parents, three brothers and three sisters.

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