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KAREN BROWER WOOD Deceased 10/5/02
FROM HER HUSBAND:
I received your notification for the Class of ‘68's 35th reunion party and I regret that I must report the death of my wife Karen Brower Wood on October 5, 2002.
She graduated from Troy High, as you know and from there received a BA from SUNY at Oswego and an MA from SUNY Potsdam. She worked several years as a nursery school teacher before taking a job at Fort Drum New York. Here, as Child Developmental Services Coordinator, she established Fort Drum’s first childcare facilities. In her eighteen years of employment and under her leadership, she established one of FORSCOM’s most exceptional facilities. Before her retirement, she built a program, which offered care to all children on Fort Drum from 6 month’s to 18 years. She managed three childcare centers through which 750 children would pass daily. She was responsible for over one hundred and fifty staff members and a budget in excess of ten million dollars. She truly loved her work with children and we all will miss her.
We were married for 30 years and together we saw two children graduate from college. Peter from SUNY at Binghamton and Briana from SUNY at Geneseo. Peter is now working as an Indiana State Trooper and concurrently has been accepted into the University of Valparaiso as a first year law student. He is married to Darcy and they expect their first child in March. Briana is now working at Byron-Bergen High School (Rochester area) in her sixth year of teaching Physics and Earth Science. I know she would be happy, if all her best were to be conveyed to her classmates and to wish them all well. Francis Wood.
Karen B. Wood (Obit from Troy Record)
WATERTOWN - Karen B. Wood, 52, of 122 Bowers Ave., died Saturday in Samaritan Medical Center, where she had been a patient since Sept. 28. She had been ill with restrictive lung disease for many years.
Mrs. Wood worked for Child Development Services as a coordinator at Fort Drum until her retirement for health reasons earlier this year.
Born Sept. 21, 1950, in Troy, daughter of William and Jean Harder Brower, she graduated from Troy High School and received a degree in elementary education from Oswego State University College and a master's degree in education from Potsdam State University College.
She married Francis Wood on Aug. 5, 1972, at St. Mary's Church in Clayton.
Survivors besides her husband are her mother of Watertown; a son, Peter of Kouts, IN; a daughter, Briana Wood of Chili; three brothers, William Brower of Troy, Jon Brower of Scotia, and Robert Brower of Malone, an uncle and several nieces, nephews and cousins.
The funeral was held at 10 a.m. Monday, Oct. 7, at Stone Presbyterian Church with the Rev. Bruce C. Smith, pastor, officiating. Private burial will be in Brookside Cemetery. Calling hours were 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 6 at TLC Funeral Home.
Donations can be made in her name to Roswell Park Cancer Treatment Institute in Buffalo, New York.
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Bob Thomas
I remember Karen..Her smile...I hung out with her brother Billy...I hadn't seen any of them in years, but her picture brings back alot..sleep peacefully, dear friend