More detail on this person: Robert "Bob"
Thomas Wood, 78, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant
colonel, passed away Friday, Dec. 21, 2012.
Memorial service: 11:30 a.m. Friday, Dec. 28, at
Harmony Fellowship Church, 824 Pennsylvania
Ave., Fort Worth, with reception to follow.
Interment with military honors: 1 p.m. Monday,
Jan. 7, 2013, in Dallas-Fort Worth National
Cemetery, 2000 Mountain Creek Parkway, Dallas.
Bob Wood was married to his beloved wife,
Frances, for more than 52 years. He was born June
24, 1934, in Lake Dallas. He graduated from
Arlington State College and joined the Army where
he remained for 36 years, first as a
Med-Evac/Dustoff helicopter pilot, where he
received numerous medals and commendations,
including the Bronze Star, Purple Heart and Combat
Medic badge while flying more than 5,000 wounded
out of the jungles of Vietnam. Later in both his
military and civilian careers, he was a hospital
administrator, serving for three years at
Frankfurt General Hospital in Frankfurt, Germany,
and over 10 years as a night administrator at John
Peter Smith County Hospital in Fort Worth. Bob
was an avid sportsman who enjoyed deer, quail and
dove hunting, gardening, fishing, camping,
cooking, traveling with his family, and playing
with his grandchildren and many well-trained bird
dogs and untrained cats. Bob was preceded in
death by his father, Edgar Thomas Wood; his
mother, Catherine Wood Draper; and his brother,
Edgar Wray Wood. Survivors: He is survived by his
wife, Frances Roach Wood; his four children and
their spouses, Beverly and Gary Chisler, Bobby
Wood, Melinda Wood Allen and Bob Allen, Cindy
Frye and Zach Frye; grandchildren, Brandon,
Christopher and Michael Chisler, Erin Allen,
Deanna Wood and Evan Boone; sister, Margaret
McReynolds: and numerous nieces and nephews.
Published in Star-Telegram on December 26, 2012
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