Ida Wood

Services for Ida Viola Wood, 76, formerly of 3303 Maplewood Drive, will be held at 10 a.m. Friday in Gundrum Funeral Home.

She died at 1:55 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 28, 2005, in Chase Center.

Born Sept. 21, 1929, in Carrollton Township, Carroll County, she was the daughter of Thomas B. and Elsie Fern Ward Starkey.

She was retired from R.B.M. and also had formerly worked at the Kitzer Restaurant.

Ida enjoyed watching the Cubs and professional wrestling. She also liked crocheting. She was a dedicated mother and grandmother.

Surviving are five daughters, Ida Murray and her husband, Jess, Lake Cicott, Rose Cook and her husband, Denny, Walton, Chris Titus and her husband, Steve, Logansport, Shirley Stotler and her husband, Don, Royal Center, and Brenda Booth and her husband, Clyde, Logansport; and several grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by three daughters, Perscilla Harris, Charlotte Sitter and Kathy Moore; one son, Charles Kirkham; two sisters, Anna Hardy and Marjorie Hardy; and two brothers, James Starkey and Walter Starkey.

The Rev. William Art Maloney will officiate at the services. Burial will be in Ever-Rest Memorial Park Cemetery.

Friends may call from 4 to 7 p.m. today in the funeral home.

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