Imogene Wood

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Imogene Wood died on February 4, 2020. Mrs. Wood was born October 13, 1926 in Drumright, Okla. to Robert Luther Troutman and Stella Alice Mae Bowen Troutman. The family lived in several towns and rural areas of Northeastern Oklahoma and Northwest Arkansas before she graduated from Foyil (OK) High School in 1944.

Upon graduation, Miss Troutman worked for the MKT Railway in Oklahoma. Her father, worked with a young telegrapher, Charles Eugene Wood. In November 1944, Miss Troutman traveled by train from Oklahoma, arriving at 2 a.m. in Yuma, AZ where she and Eugene Wood were married shortly thereafter by a Presbyterian minister officiating at hundreds of wartime weddings. They celebrated their 75th wedding anniversary this past November.

Mr. Wood was stationed with the U.S. Navy in Banning, Calif. at the time of their marriage. The couple later lived in San Diego and San Jose, Calif.; Coeur d’Alene, Idaho; and Seattle, Wash. Mr. Wood returned to the Frisco Railway, and the couple lived in Seneca, Mo. and Foyil and Fairland, Okla.

In 1950, the family moved to Madill. In 1956, the Wood’s purchased one of the first six homes in the new Sunset Drive subdivision, owning it until 2018.

Primarily a wife, mother and homemaker, Mrs. Wood worked part-time as a bookkeeper for the Madill Lumber Company. She also served as a Madill election clerk for several years. Mrs. Wood was a very active member of the First United Methodist Church in Madill. She attended Sunday School each week and was an officer of the Susannah Wesley Circle, hosting the group at her home. For more than thirty years, Mrs. Wood contributed baked goods (she was known for molasses ginger cookies and clove cake) for sale at the church’s annual Zelma Bazaar. She also assisted in the stitchery booth, selling, among other items, embroidered tea towels and neck pillows she had sewn.

Mrs. Wood is survived by her husband, Eugene, of Madill; three sons – Russell of Garland, TX; twins David Michael of New York, NY and Dan of Sharon Springs, NY; five nephews and a niece. She was preceded in death by three sisters, a brother and a nephew.

Services will be under the direction of Watts Funeral Home, Madill, Oklahoma. Condolences may be sent to wattsfuneralhome.com.