LeRay Cecil Wood

2 April 1924–5 November 2006 (Age 82)
Soda Springs, Caribou, Idaho, United States

The Life of LeRay Cecil

When LeRay Cecil Wood was born on 2 April 1924, in Soda Springs, Caribou, Idaho, United States, his father, Franklin Daniel Wood, was 44 and his mother, Martha Elizabeth Biorn, was 36. He married Donna Jean Leebenow on 3 February 1948. He lived in Caribou, Idaho, United States in 1935 and Thomas Election Precinct, Bingham, Idaho, United States in 1940. He died on 5 November 2006, in Blackfoot, Bingham, Idaho, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Grove City Cemetery, Blackfoot, Bingham, Idaho, United States.

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Family Time Line

LeRay Cecil Wood
1924–2006
Donna Jean Leebenow
1929–1984
Marriage: 3 February 1948

Spouse and Children

MARRIAGE
3 February 1948

Parents and Siblings

siblings

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World Events (8)

1927

Age 3

Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
1927 · First Hotel in Idaho Falls

Age 3

The Bonneville Hotel was built in 1927. It became the second hotel in Idaho Falls and the first geared for upper class patrons.
1947 · The Presidential Succession Act

Age 23

The Presidential Succession Act is an act establishing the presidential line of succession. This was a precursor for the Twenty-fifth Amendment which outlines what is to happen when a President is killed, dies, or is unable to fulfill the responsibilities of President.

Name Meaning

English and Scottish:1. mainly a topographic name for someone who lived in or by a wood or a metonymic occupational name for a woodcutter or forester, from Middle English wode ‘wood’ (Old English wudu). 2. nickname for a mad, eccentric, or violent person, from Middle English wōd ‘mad’, ‘frenzied’ (Old English wād), as in Adam le Wode, Worcestershire 1221 .

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

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Sources (3)

  • Leray Cecil Wood, "Utah, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records, 1914-1960"
  • Leroy Cecil Woods in household of Frank D Woods, "Utah, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records, 1914-1960"
  • Leray Wood, "Utah, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records, 1914-1960"

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