IN LOVING MEMORY OF

Floyd Allen

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Wood

Jan 22, 1909 — Sep 21, 2009

Obituary

Age 100, Lawton - Funeral services will be 2:00 p.m. Thursday in the First Baptist Church with Dr. William F. Watkins and Rev. Tom Willoughby officiating. Mr. Wood died Monday in a Lawton hospital. Burial will be in Sunset Memorial Gardens under the direction of the Becker Funeral Home. He was born the youngest of five boys and three girls on January 22, 1909 in Hochatown, Oklahoma, to Martin A. and Annie Wood. He completed high school in Estancia, New Mexico, in 1928. He received his B.S. degree in Trade and Industrial Education in 1933 and his Master's degree in 1940 from Oklahoma A&M, now Oklahoma State University. Floyd was a member of the wrestling team for the 1931-32 season. He married Iris Hall on May 16, 1934 near Newalla, Oklahoma. She preceded him in death on April 28, 1989. He later married Aline White on October 19, 1995 in Lawton. She died April 29, 2008. With his degree and wrestling experience, Mr. Wood taught shop and wood-working and coached wrestling at several Oklahoma high schools, including Norman (where he won a state championship), Goodwell, and Anadarko. In 1939 he joined the Kiwanis Club in Anadarko and received the Citizen of the Year award for youth work. In July 1944 he accepted a position in Vocational Rehabilitation with the Oklahoma State Department of Human Services. beginning a 39-year career. He moved to Lawton and initially served fourteen counties in southwest Oklahoma. His responsibilities included identifying and working with individuals who were physically challenged, helping them with financial support for higher education or technical training and with physical restoration, including surgery if needed. Following his retirement in 1983 he volunteered at the Lawton Food Bank, delivered Mobile Meals and performed a lot of recycling work. He was a member of the Downtown Kiwanis Club where he had served two years as Lieutenant Governor for Division 8, was named Kiwanian of the Year and had received the George Hixon and C.T. Bush awards. He also received the mayor's Citizen of the Month award. In 1968 he was named Counselor of the Year in Vocational Rehabilitation in Oklahoma. He was a member of the First Baptist Church where he was a deacon and a member of the Friendly Fellow's Sunday School Class. He is survived by two daughters and sons in law, Gwen and Jerry Phelps, Lawton, and Helen and C.L. Craig, Shawnee, Oklahoma; children by marriage, Carla and Lane Fabian, Allen, Texas, and Steven White, Greensboro, Georgia; four grandchildren and their spouses, Justin and Shelley Phelps, Lawton, Joel and Patti Phelps, Salina, Kansas, April and John Stobbe, Shawnee, Bryant and Kennette Craig, Edmond, Oklahoma; 12 great grandchildren, Abbey, Josh, Jacob and Hannah Phelps, Camryn, Connor and Collin Phelps, Emily, John and Olivia Stobbe and Caleb and Will Craig. His parents, four brothers and three sisters preceded him in death. Memorial contributions may be made to the First Baptist Church of Lawton, P.O. Box 1409, Lawton OK 73502 or to the Oklahoma State University Alumni Association, 201 OSU Alumni Center, Stillwater OK 74078.

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