Wood, Alice Mae Kirl

Funeral services for Alice Mae Kirl Wood, 76, of Longview, will 
be held 2 p.m. Monday, December 4, 2006, in the chapel of Rader 
Funeral Home of Longview, with Brother Ottis Jarrell officiating. 
Interment will be in Memory Park Cemetery. She passed away Thursday, 
November 30, 2006, at a Longview hospital. Mrs. Wood was born July 
5, 1930, in Longview, to Fred Sr. and Mary Kirl, where she was a 
lifetime resident. She was formerly employed at Barrow's Grocery for 
17 years, and was retired from Stemco after 20 years of service. She 
was also a homemaker and attended Pine Forrest Baptist Church. She 
was a loving wife, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. She 
was preceded in death by her parents; stepfather, Dewey G. Conley; 
brothers, Claborne Kirl and Fred Kirl Jr.; sisters, Winifred Ross and 
Billie Rathburn Christian; and granddaughter, Crystal Cherae Richardson. 
Those left to cherish her memory are her loving husband of 42 years, 
Roy W. Wood of Longview; daughters and sons-in-law, Margaret Franks of 
Hallsville, Lynda and James Shelton of Longview, Teresa and Eric 
Christensen of Gilmer, Alison and Michael Hill, and Kay and Von Schattel, 
all of Hallsville; sons and daughters-in-law, David and Cindy Gordy of 
Longview, and David and Shon Wood of Lewisville, Texas; 17 grandchildren; 
24 great-grandchildren; sisters, Wilburdean Taunton of El Dorado, Arkansas, 
and Wynona Prince of Longview; brother, Huey P. Kirl of Daingerfield; and 
numerous nieces and nephews. Visitation will be from 2-4 p.m. Sunday 
afternoon, December 3, 2006, at the funeral home. A memorial guestbook may 
be signed online at www.raderfh.com.

Published in the Longview News-Journal on 12/2/2006.