TITLE:  John Oates Woods

SOURCE: The New and Reporter, 

SUBMITTED: The News and Reporter

FORMATTED: Kim Grissom, 

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Mr. John Oates Woods, 91
ROCK HILL – The funeral for Mr. John Oates Woods of 624 Meadowbrook 
Lane will be conducted at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, July 31 at First 
Presbyterian Church. The Rev. Dr. William Pender will officiate and 
burial will occur at 10 a.m. the day of the funeral at Evergreen 
Cemetery in Chester. Mr. Woods, 91, died Saturday, July 21, 2001, at 
Piedmont Medical Center. A native of Chester, Mr. Woods was a son of 
the late Auburn Woods Sr. and JoAnna Smith Oates Woods. He was a 1933 
graduate of Presbyterian College, where he was on the track team, 
cheerleading squad and a member of the Kappa Alpha Fraternity and 
winner of the Blue Key Award. He graduated from the Georgetown 
University School of Law in 1937 and served in the U.S. Army during 
World War II in Washington, D.C., and retired from the U.S. Army 
Reserve in 1960 as Lt. Col. Mr. Woods moved to Rock Hill in 1947 and 
began the private practice of law. He was joined by his son, Henry T. 
Woods, in 1971 and continued to practice as a member of Woods and Woods
Attorneys until his full retirement in 1999. He was a past member of 
the District of Columbia Bar, a member of the S.C. Bar and the York 
County Bar Association, where he served as a past president. An active 
member in community affairs, Mr. Woods served as president of the 
Community Chest, the predecessor of the United Way. He was a past 
president and active member of the Rock Hill Kiwanis Club for more 
than 40 years and was a member of Oakland Avenue Presbyterian Church, 
where he was a Sunday school teacher, a deacon, an elder and at the 
time of his death, a senior elder. Survivors include three sons, John 
O. Woods Jr. and Fred W. Woods, both of Alexandria, Va., and Henry T. 
Woods of Rock Hill; a daughter, Ann Woods Simpson of Rock Hill; two 
sisters, Joann Woods McMaster of Rock Hill and Juliet “Tootsie” Woods 
Jenkins of Sumter; four grandchildren, John O. Woods III, Margaret Rose
Woods, Joseph McJunkin Saye Simpson and James Gaston Simpson Jr.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Margaret Louise Wilkinson.
The family will be at the home of Joe and Ann Woods Simpson, 626 
Oakwood Lane, Rock Hill, S.C. 29730. In lieu of flowers, memorials may 
be made to Oakland Avenue Presbyterian Church Sanctuary Renovation 
Fund, C/O Oakland Avenue Presbyterian Church, 421 Oakland Avenue, Rock 
Hill, S.C. 29730. Greene Funeral Home is in charge.
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