Walter Edgar Woods

1929 - 1993  (63 years)

• Name	Walter Edgar Woods
  Birth	16 Dec 1929	Long Creek, Decatur, IA
  Gender	Male
  Census	21 Apr 1930	Long Creek, Decatur, IA ; age 1 3/12, born IA, living with parents
  Census	5 Apr 1940	Doyle, Clarke, IA ; age 11, born IA, living with parents
  Death	27 Feb 1993	Voorhees, Camden, NJ
  Person ID	I18925	Family Tree
  Last Modified	8 Nov 2017

  
  

  Father	Clarence Raymond “Ray” Woods,   b. 29 Apr 1887, Barney, Madison, IA d. 6 Oct 1963, Clarke Co, IA (Age 76 years)
  Mother	Nancy Abigail “Abbie” Roberts,   b. 28 Aug 1889, Greene Co, IA d. 24 Jun 1966, Ames, Story, IA (Age 76 years)
  Family ID	F6974	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Jean
  Family ID	F7376	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	8 Nov 2017

  
  

• Notes

  from "Sons of Ray and Abbie Woods: Four Sond Enlisted to Serve Their Country in the U.S. Navy" (iagenweb.org) WALTER EDGAR WOODS was born December 16, 1928; and enlisted October 4, 1946. He attended boot camp at San Diego Naval Training Center, San Diego, California, and attended ET (Electronics) School in San Francisco, California for one year. In 1948, he was stationed at Virginia Beach, Virginia as an ET Instructor. He was sent to Guantanamo Bay Naval Operating Base in Cuba in 1949. In 1951, Walter spent the year in New Orleans, Louisiana, at Tulane University as an instructor. He was stationed at Great Lakes as an instructor in ET School in 1952, and at Virginia Beach, Virginia in 1954. He went to Rhode Island in 1956, to OCS (Officers! Candidate School), and was commissioned Ensign in 1957. He spent most of the rest of his naval career at sea on cruisers and carriers, putting the Forrestal in commission. The last four years were spent at the Naval Station Dam Neck in Virginia Beach, Virginia teaching computer classes to Navy personnel. He retired as a Lieutenant Commander, with a medical discharge in October 1969, after serving in the Navy 23 years. Edgar passed away February 27, 1993.