TITLE:  Herbert Woods, Jr

SOURCE:  The Post and Courier, June 18, 2001

SUBMITTED:  The Post and Courier

FORMATTED:  Kim Grissom, June 2001


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WOODS, JR., Herbert Funeral service for the late Mr. Herbert DeWard 
Woods, Jr., will be held 2 p.m., on Tuesday, June 19, 2001, at the 
Jeremiah United Methodist Church of Hemingway. Interment will follow 
in the Devotional Memorial Garden Cemetery. Reverend J.P. Thomas will 
conduct the Religious Service. NESMITH-PINCKNEY FUNERAL HOME is in 
charge of arrangements. Mr. Woods entered into eternal rest on 
Wednesday, June 13, 2001, at New York Cornell Medical Center after an 
illness. Mr. Woods, son of the late Herbert DeWard and Pearline Mintz 
Woods, was born May 25, 1925, in Richmond, Va. He was educated at 
Wilson High School in Florence County. He later joined the United 
States Army in 1942, serving two terms. He was instrumental in 
establishing Sylvia's famous soul food restaurant in New York. Mr. 
Woods joined Abyssinian Baptist Church in New York City. He remained 
faithful to Jeremiah United Methodist Church. He was joined in holy 
wedlock to Sylvia Pressley. To this union four children were born, 
Van, Kenneth, Pedelia, and Crizette. Those who are left to cherish 
his memories are, his wife, Sylvia Woods of New York; two sons, 
Kenneth (Sylvia) Woods and Van (Brenda) Woods, both of New York; three
daughters, Pedelia, Crizette, and Linda, all of New York; two sisters,
Annette Bass of Virginia Beach, Va., and Bertha Donnelly Pressley of 
Hemingway, S.C.; one brother, Robert "Dock" Francis Donnelly; one 
additional sister-in-law, Louvenia Donnelly of Moncks Corner; two 
aunts, Cassie Thomas and Kathleen Woods, both of Timmonsville, S.C.; 
17 grandchildren and three great grandchildren. (The Post and Courier
June 18,2001)
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