LELA M. WOOD 80 OBLONG, ILLINOIS

VISITATION: 10:00 A.M. - 11:00 A.M. TUESDAY DECEMBER 30, 2003

FUNERAL: 11:00 A.M. TUEDAY DECEMBER 30, 2003
PULLIAM FUNERAL HOME - OBLONG

MEMORIALS: ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION with envelopes at or may be mailed to funeral home.

Lela M. Wood, 80, Oblong, Illinois died Friday December 26, 2003 at Crawford Memorial Hospital in Robinson, Illinois. She was born in Jay County, Indiana ( near Bryant and Portland, Indiana) on July 23, 1923 and was the daughter of Walter Crowell and Mary (Bowler) Crowell. On April 11, 1959, she married John H. Wood who died October 14, 1994. Lela retired as a laborer at the Ettlebrick Shoe Factory in Robinson, Illinois on July 23, 1988. She was a member of the Oblong Evangelical United Methodist Church and she loved to paint.

She is survived by a daughter and son-in-law Claudia & Kim Osmus; two grandchildren Shannon & Brian Riese and Casey & Kim Dexter; four great grandchildren Alexander Riese, Keanna, Kearian and Keora Dexter and two sisters Jeanette Crowell and Irene Crowell.

Lela's parents, husband and one brother (Wendell Crowell) precede her in death.

Burial will be in Oblong Cemetery.