Wood, Lenore Pearl “Babe” – Obituary

North Powder, Oregon

Lenore Pearl “Babe” Wood, 96, of North Powder, died March 14, 2001, at Phillips Foster Care at North Powder.

Her funeral will be scheduled later.

Mrs. Wood was born June 6, 1904, at Caldwell, Idaho, to Charles Wesley Wood and Esabelle Hanna Eames. She went out on her own when she was 16. She moved to Portland where she worked at an orphanage taking care of babies.

She met Harold Wood and they married and moved to San Francisco. Mrs. Wood lived there until 1977, when she moved back to Baker City.

Her many interests included basketball, crocheting, knitting and reading. She traveled all over the world and was a member of the Rebekah Lodge.

She enjoyed family get-togethers. She was a very happy, kind, gentle and loving person. Everyone who knew her loved and admired her. Her family will miss her very much.

Survivors include her great-nephews, Michael Allen Morrow of Haines, and a great-niece, Elizabeth Leigh Neill of Baker City; and numerous great- and great-great-nephews and nieces.

She was preceded in death by her father, Charles Morrow; her mother, Julia Morrow; a brother, Charles Lewis Morrow; sister-in-law, Lee Morrow; sister, Lilian Moudy; a brother-in-law, Ernest Moudy; and a nephew, Walter Allen Morrow.

Used with permission from: The Baker City Herald, Baker City, Oregon, March 16, 2001
Transcribed by: Belva Ticknor


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