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Boyd Maurice Woodard,
M.D.
| Born: |
November 5,
1913 in Hall Summit, Louisiana |
| Died: |
November 15,
1982 in Lake Charles, Louisiana |
| Buried: |
November 17,
1982 in Goos Cemetery, Lake Charles,
Louisiana (Map 10) |
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| Father: |
Joel Ernest
Woodard |
| Mother: |
Beulah Mae
Horton |
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| First
Wife: |
Elizabeth
Barbara Fitzenreiter |
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| Married: |
August 1, 1941in
First Methodist Church, Lake Charles,
Louisiana |
| Ended |
October 17,
1976 in Lake Charles,
Louisiana (death of wife) |
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| Children: |
Charles Boyd
Woodard, M.D. |
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Baby
boy Woodard |
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James Francis
Woodard, M.D. |
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Elizabeth
Barbara Woodard |
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| Second
Wife: |
Myrtle Eileen
Jordan |
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| Married: |
1977 |
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Lake Charles American Press,
November 16, 1982, p. 1:
Woodard services
scheduled today
Funeral
services for Dr. Boyd Maurice Woodard, 69, of 511 W. Sale
Road, will be at 2 p.m. today, Nov. 16, in the North Chapel at
Hixson Funeral
Home.
Dr. Carl
Lueg will officiate. Burial will be in Goos
Cemetery.
Dr.
Woodard died at 1:35 a.m. Monday in a local
hospital.
A
native of Hall Summit, he began his medical practice in Lake
Charles in 1951.
Dr. Woodard received an Honorary Law Degree from McNeese State
University in
1978.
He was a
graduate of Louisiana State Normal Teachers College, received
his M.S. degree from the University of Arkansas, his M.D. from
the L.S.U. School of Medicine in New Orleans, and interned at
Confederate Memorial Hospital in
Shreveport.
Dr.
Woodard had served as president of the Louisiana Academy of
Family Practice, and was a Fellow of the American Academy of
Family Practice. He was a member of the American Medical
Association, the Louisiana State Medical Society, Calcasieu
Parish Medical Society, and had served as the team physician
at McNeese State University for many
years.
Before
entering the field of medicine, he had been football coach at
LaGrange, and coach and principal at West Lake. He had served
on the Louisiana State Board of Education for 16 years, twice
as its
president.
He
was also a member of Masonic Lodge Calcasieu 400 and of the
Habibi Shrine
Temple.
During
World War II, he had served in the U.S.
Navy.
Survivors
include his wife, Mrs. Eileen Woodard; one daughter, Elizabeth
B. Woodard of Houston; two sons, Dr. Charles B. Woodard of
Lake Charles and Dr. James F. Woodard of Baton Rouge; three
stepdaughters, Mrs. Norma Riddle and Mrs. Donna Reed, both of
Lake Charles, and Mrs. Suzanne Nelson of Orange; one brother,
Harold M. Woodard of Lake Charles; two sisters, Mrs. Helen W.
Prudhomme of Memphis, Tenn. and Mrs. Ernestine Richard of Lake
Charles, and four step grandchildren.
If friends wish, memorial donations may be made to the McNeese
Foundation Scholarship Fund, the family
said.
Pallbearers will be Wayne Cusic, William J. Dodd, Montie Hall,
Dr. Thomas Leary, Dr. Robert C. Looney and Dr. Charles T.
White.
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