[at-l] Ms Tillie's Obit from the AJC (fwd)

[Arthur Gaudet]

This has a bit more about how the cabin was her first home with Roy Wood. From
what I understood (from Tillie) the elk herd was an effort to re-establish a
self-sustaining herd.

She made more than one exception about serving breakfast at Wood's Hole. In 1997
I arrived without a penny in my pocket. When breakfast was served the others
went inside and I stayed back in the barn we slept in. She looked at me, said
"what about you"? I explained and she said "come on in anyway". I visited her
twice more and enjoyed the visits very much. --Arthur aka RockDancer

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> MATILDA KING WOOD 1918-2007 Next year Appalachian Trail hikers will 
> miss a twenty-year tradition, hot biscuits at Wood's Hole Hostel at 
> the head of Sugar Run Valley, Virginia, cooked by Tillie Wood. Tillie 
> passed away on Sunday, October 14, 2007. Matilda King was born 
> February 27, 1918 in Adalee, Oklahoma, the first child of Carl Lomas 
> King of Knoxville, Tennessee, and Mary Smith King of Winslow, 
> Arkansas. Her education began in a one-room school for Cherokee 
> Indians. At her mother's insistence, the family, including her younger 
> brother, Ben, and sister, Tinky, moved to Fort Smith, Arkansas for a 
> better education. Tillie worked her way through the University of 
> Arkansas where she met Roy K. Wood of Augusta, Arkansas. After Tillie 
> graduated with a Master's in Biology, she married Roy and moved to 
> Sugar Run, Virginia where her husband was studying an elk herd for his 
> Master's thesis in Wildlife Conservation. They spent the first year of 
> their marriage in a hand-hewn chestnut log cabin, with a fireplace for 
> heat and a creek for water. They later bought the cabin which is now 
> the Wood's Hole Hostel. Roy went to work for the U.S. Fish and 
> Wildlife Service in Atlanta, and Tillie moved into an old farm house 
> on Woodstock Road outside of Roswell, Ga. There, Tillie raised her 
> three children, Mary Jo, Ben, and Jere. Tillie taught school; started 
> the first kindergarten in Roswell, which grew to become High Meadows 
> School; organized the first Girl Scout troop; helped organize the 
> Roswell Historical Society; served as president of the Women's Club; 
> traveled with Jimmmy Carter and the "Peanut Brigade" to New Hampshire 
> and other states in his Presidential Campaign; was a real estate 
> agent; knitted and gave hundreds of sweaters and dolls to local 
> hospitals for newborns; operated a hostel on the Appalachian Trail; 
> and was involved in establishing many of the institutions that form 
> the foundation for the City of Roswell. Tillie was most proud of the successes
of her children and grandchildren. Tillie's husband, Roy Kellum Wood, and her
brother, General Benjamin Hardin King, USAF, predeceased her. She is survived by
her sister, Dorothy Mills of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; her children, Dr.
> Mary Jo Harris Osteen, D.V.M., of Ball Ground, Georgia; Benjamin 
> Travis Wood, AIA, of Shanghai, China; and the Honorable Jere Wood, 
> Mayor of Roswell; and her grandchildren, Jere Harris Metcalf, Neville 
> Harris, Amy Wood, and Roy Travis Wood. Tillie's love will be missed by 
> many. The memorial service for Matilda King Wood will be Wednesday, 
> October 17, at 2:00 PM in the Roswell Presbyterian Church, 755 Mimosa 
> Blvd., followed by a reception in the Courtyard Room of the Church. 
> The Reverend Dr. Lane Alderman, assisted by The Reverend Richard Hill 
> and The Reverend Margaret Turney-Ayer, will preside. In lieu of 
> flowers, memorials may be sent to the Chattahoochee Nature Center,
> 9135 Willeo Road, Roswell, Georgia 30075. The Cremation Society of the 
> SOUTH is in charge of the arrangements. 770-420-5557.
> Published in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on 10/16/2007. 
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