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John Wesley Woodruff

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John Wesley Woodruff

Birth
Missouri, USA
Death
2 Feb 1966 (aged 86)
Nampa, Canyon County, Idaho, USA
Burial
Boise, Ada County, Idaho, USA
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John W. Woodruff
NAMPA —John Wesley Woodruff, 86, 211 Sixteenth Avenue South, died at a local hospital Wednesday after a short illness. He was born Oct. 26, 1879, in Missouri and was raised at Aurora, Mo. When he was 21 he moved to Cunningham, Wash., and married Nellie May Tilburg Nov. 14, 1906 at Spokane, Wash.
They lived on a ranch at Chewelah, Wash., until 1913 when they moved to Mountain Home. They farmed there for 31 years then moved to New Plymouth where they lived for seven years. He retired and moved to Nampa in 1951. Mrs. Woodruff died Jan. 1, 1961. He was a member of the United Presbyterian Church.
Survivors include three sans, Floyd Woodruff, Livermore, Calif., Joyce Woodruff, Nampa, and Marion Woodruff, Glendale, Calif.; three daughters, Mrs. Elthier Sikes, Boise; Mrs. Marjorie Detrick, Scottsdale, Ariz., and Mrs. Viola Dunn, Boise; two brothers, Ellis Woodruff, and Asa Woodruff, both of Buhl; two sisters, Mrs. Nevada Bevan, Spokane, and Mrs. Ida Chipman, Boise, 12 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his wife, a son Everett, a daughter Ruth, and a grandchild, Peggy Dunn.
Services will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Alsip Chapel. Dr. Robert C. Shupe of Caldwell will officiate. Interment will be at Cloverdale.

Idaho Daily Statesman, Thursday February 3, 1966 Page 2-D
John W. Woodruff
NAMPA —John Wesley Woodruff, 86, 211 Sixteenth Avenue South, died at a local hospital Wednesday after a short illness. He was born Oct. 26, 1879, in Missouri and was raised at Aurora, Mo. When he was 21 he moved to Cunningham, Wash., and married Nellie May Tilburg Nov. 14, 1906 at Spokane, Wash.
They lived on a ranch at Chewelah, Wash., until 1913 when they moved to Mountain Home. They farmed there for 31 years then moved to New Plymouth where they lived for seven years. He retired and moved to Nampa in 1951. Mrs. Woodruff died Jan. 1, 1961. He was a member of the United Presbyterian Church.
Survivors include three sans, Floyd Woodruff, Livermore, Calif., Joyce Woodruff, Nampa, and Marion Woodruff, Glendale, Calif.; three daughters, Mrs. Elthier Sikes, Boise; Mrs. Marjorie Detrick, Scottsdale, Ariz., and Mrs. Viola Dunn, Boise; two brothers, Ellis Woodruff, and Asa Woodruff, both of Buhl; two sisters, Mrs. Nevada Bevan, Spokane, and Mrs. Ida Chipman, Boise, 12 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his wife, a son Everett, a daughter Ruth, and a grandchild, Peggy Dunn.
Services will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Alsip Chapel. Dr. Robert C. Shupe of Caldwell will officiate. Interment will be at Cloverdale.

Idaho Daily Statesman, Thursday February 3, 1966 Page 2-D

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