Marjorie Ann Woods

Margie was filled with love for her faith, family, friends and hometown of Bernie, Missouri. She was known and appreciated for her compassion and her outreach to those in need. Margie forged many lifelong friendships, because of her warm, endearing personality and ability to make others feel comfortable and laugh. Her early years were spent in St Louis and Cane Creek, Missouri. She moved, with her family to Bernie in the middle of her sophomore year. She then attended Bernie High School for two years and finished High School in Poplar Bluff. It was in Bernie, where she met the love her life R. B. Woods Jr. They were married in 1949 and moved to Bernie where she lived for 63 years. Ten years after the death of her beloved husband, she felt the need to move closer to her sons, Roy Bickford Woods III (Ann F. Woods) and Gary Steven Woods (Krystal D. Woods) and their families, living for a time in both Lake Charles and New Orleans, Louisiana.

Margie was a lifetime member of the Community of Christ Church and through her devotion became an ordained Priest. She was very involved in community service and always found ways to put her faith to work by helping others. She was a volunteer for “Meals on Wheels,” Bernie Library and civic-related activities. She supported her husband during his twenty-eight years tenure as Mayor of Bernie. Margie and RB owned and operated the Woods Supermarket for over four decades. In addition to their business, Margie at times worked at the local Missouri Farmers Association grain facility, the Bernie Paper as the local reporter and for the county as a US Census Taker. A woman of many talents, Margie received several singing awards in her youth, excelled at water skiing, learned how to fly an airplane and was proud to have accomplished a solo flight. She was a loving and dedicated mother, who felt it was of utmost importance to expose her sons to cultural, civic, and social events. Margie enrolled them in tap dance as well as piano lessons and took them to St. Louis to see a Broadway play. She also was a fervent supporter of their schooling, extracurricular activities, and college degrees. Blessed with wonderful grandchildren and great grandchildren she loved her role as grandmother and cherished her time with each of them. She had a very long life and will be missed by all. She requested that her final resting place be in her hometown of Bernie, next to her husband R.B. Woods Jr.

She is predeceased in death by her mother Mabel Tipton Fears, father Austin Archibald Fears, brothers Jim Edwards Fears, Jack Tipton Fears, and sister Helen Elizabeth Rubottom Baumgartner (Bette).

Those left to cherish her memory are her two sons, Roy Woods III (Ann) of Harvey, LA, and Gary Woods (Krystal) of Lake Charles, LA.; nine grandchildren, Heather Menendez (Stephen) of Mandeville, LA, Richelle Cannon (Steve) of Lake Charles, LA, Jennifer Stephens (Adam) of Mandeville, LA, Ryann Litel (Tim) of Baton Rouge, LA, Summer Templeton (Steven) of Lake Charles, LA, Daniel Woods of Bozeman MT, Joshua Bitoun (Ashley) of Marrero, LA, Casie Woods (Santiago Pandolfi), of Metairie, LA, and Jacob Bitoun (Meghan) of New Orleans, LA; eighteen great-grandchildren, Austin, Hunter and Ava Menendez, William and Harrison Cannon, Landry, Gentry, Jacques, and Wesley Litel, Josie and Emerson Stephens, Madeline and Thomas Templeton, Isaiah, Elliot and Arthur Bitoun, Sabastain and Luca Pandolfi.

A Celebration of Life for Marjorie will be held on Sunday February 13, 2022 at the Community of Christ in Baton Rouge, at 2 PM. Interment will be in Bernie Memorial Cemetery, Bernie, Mo.