O. Harry Woods

Mr. O. Harry Woods Jr. Mr. O. Harry Woods Jr., 86, formerly of Bartlesville, died Thursday, December 10, 2015 in Tulsa. O. Harry Woods, Jr. was born in 1929 in Parsons, Kansas. He graduated from Baker University in Baldwin, Kansas and received his MBA degree from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Harry Woods, Jr. was a 3rd generation lumber dealer of the pioneer O.E. Woods Lumber Co. which was founded in southeast Kansas in 1889 and at one time had multiple operations in southeast Kansas and Northeast Oklahoma. He married Janice Rice of Parsons, Kansas on September 2, 1951 and they had three children. The family moved to Bartlesville on Memorial Day of 1954 when Woods purchased the managing interest in the Overlees-Kruse Lumber Co., which at that time was located on the southeast corner of Frank Phillips Blvd. and Cherokee. He and his wife Jan enjoyed living at Grand Lake for several years. Together they enjoyed playing golf and traveling to many different golf courses throughout the United States and internationally. He is survived by his daughter, Pamela Woods Morrow and her husband Clifford Morrow of Gladstone, Missouri and daughter Kay Ann Boyer, husband Frank Boyer and their three girls, Laura, Anna and Jenna of Tulsa, Oklahoma, his daughter-in-law, Nancy Woods of Bartlesville, grandson Nicholas and wife Jillian and their 2 children of Oklahoma City, and granddaughter Monica Butts and her husband David of Tulsa, Oklahoma. He was preceded in death by his wife Janice, and his son Craig Harrison Woods. Harry had been in the building materials business in Bartlesville for 50 years and his son, Craig was a 4th generation in the business. Harry was an involved principal in the development of many of the fine housing additions in Bartlesville including Woodland Park, Woodland View, Colonial Estates, Cambridge Park, and Rolling Hills. His civic involvement includes the proposal, presentation and promotion of the ¼ cent sales tax which became the Economic Development Fund, long time board chairman of the old Washington County Memorial Hospital, chairman of the standing committees to recommend and oversee the needs of the public school facilities, and charter member of the Downtown Trust Authority. He also served as past president of Hillcrest Country Club. In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to: The Craig H. Woods Memorial Scholarship Fund at Oklahoma Wesleyan University, 2201 Silver Lake Road, Bartlesville, Oklahoma,74006. Harry will be remembered as a fair and honest businessman and a man who cared deeply for his community, his friends and family. Private services are under the direction of the Stumpff Funeral Home & Crematory.

O. Harry Woods

July 6, 1929 - December 10, 2015