Karen Elaine Wood

Female9 July 1949–1 March 1998

Brief Life History of Karen Elaine

When Karen Elaine Wood was born on 9 July 1949, in Douglas, Cochise, Arizona, United States, her father, John Lee Wood, was 22 and her mother, Katherine Charmaine Baggett, was 19. She died on 1 March 1998, in Tucson, Pima, Arizona, United States, at the age of 48, and was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Bisbee, Cochise, Arizona, United States.

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Family Time Line

John Lee Wood
1927–1998
Katherine Charmaine Baggett
1929–1997
Karen Elaine Wood
1949–1998
Patricia Ann Wood
1953–2004

Sources (3)

  • Karen E Wood, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Karen E. Wood, "BillionGraves Index"
  • Karen E Wood, "Find A Grave Index"

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Siblings (2)

World Events (8)

1950

Age 1

United States military forces play a leading role against North Korean and Chinese troops in Korean War.

1950 · Start of the Korean War

Age 1

The Korean War was a civil war between North and South Korea. North Korea had support of China and the Soviet Union while South Korea gained support from the United States. The war broke out as a product of the Cold War because of the different ideologies that each side had for what government is. The fighting stopped when an armistice was signed but no peace treaty was ever established. To some the war is still progressing but it is in a stage of frozen conflict.

1963

Age 14

President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas.

Name Meaning

English: mainly a topographic name for someone who lived in or by a wood, from Middle English wode ‘wood’ (Old English wudu). In North America, the English form of the surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, such as French Bois and Polish Les .

English: in a few cases, a nickname for an eccentric or perhaps a violent person, from Middle English wode ‘frenzied, wild’ (Old English wōd).

Americanized form of French Gadbois .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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