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Kathryn "Katie" Wills Wood

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Kathryn "Katie" Wills Wood, 96, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, formerly of Pine Bluff, Arkansas, died Monday, May 29, 2017. She was born December 1, 1920 in Almyra, Arkansas, daughter of George Henry and Alta Wray Deacon. Mrs. Wood was reared and received her early education in Arkansas. She earned her Bachelor's in Education from the University of Arkansas at Monticello. She was an elementary school teacher for five years in Arkansas County before moving to Pine Bluff, where she taught for 15 years in the Pine Bluff School District before retiring in 1974. Mrs. Wood was a member of First Baptist Church in Pine Bluff, where she was a former Sunday School teacher. She was also a member of Delta Kappa Gamma, Twentieth Century Club, and Genealogy Society. After moving to Tulsa in 2010, she made many friends at Country Club of Woodland Hills where she was active in her exercise class, bridge club, Bible study, and book club. She was preceded in death by her first husband, R.C. Wills Jr., whom she married July 20, 1940; second husband, Lewis Wood, whom she married May 27, 1978; her parents; sister, Gladys Wall; brother, Wayne Deacon; grandson, Richard Fox; and nieces, Janis Smith and Phyllis Ann Deacon. Survivors include Georgia Wills, daughter, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, Kathy Rimmer, daughter and son-in-law, Dan Rimmer of Catoosa, Oklahoma, and Susie Fox, daughter, of Winona, Minnesota; three step-daughters, Linda Hunter of Houston, Texas, Jean Nixon of Star City, Arkansas, and Joan Clowers of Pine Bluff, Arkansas; nephew, Wayne Deacon, Jr. of Chattanooga, Tennessee; and numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be 2:30 p.m., Thursday, June 1, 2017 in the Chapel of Ralph Robinson & Son with Reverend Harold Mitchell officiating. Burial will follow in Bellwood Cemetery. Visitation will be Thursday afternoon from 1:30 p.m. until service time at Robinson's. Memorials may be made to First Baptist Church, 6501 South Hazel Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas 71603; Asbury United Methodist Church, 6767 S Mingo Rd, Tulsa, Oklahoma 74133; Crisis Pregnancy Outreach, 7807 E 76th St, Tulsa, Oklahoma 74133; or any animal rescue organization. Online register: www.ralphrobinsonandson.com.

Published May 31, 2017

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