VINITA, Aug. 23—Services for Lieut. Thomas Franklin Wood,
24-year-old former Tulsan who was killed in action June 13
in Korea, will be held at 4 p.m. Monday in the Burckhalter
Memorial chapel. Burial will be in Fairview cemetery.
Wood, son of Mrs. Clinton F. Wood, Vinita, was born July 17,
1929, in Tulsa. He was graduated from Tulsa Central
highschool in 1946. He attended Stanford university, Palo
Alto, Calif., from 1947 until he entered the army Jan. 17,
1951, while a senior at Stanford. He received his basic
training at Fort Bragg, N.C., and later was graduated from
officers’ candidate school at Fort Benning, Ga. A member of
the infantry, Wood had been in Korea three months.
Survivors, in addition to his mother, include: his wife,
Mrs. Mary M. Wood and one son, Thomas Mitchell Wood, both of
the home in Berkley, Calif.; and his grandmother, Mrs. T.M.
Buffington, Vinita.
From The Oklahoma, 8/24/1953
Donated by:
Emily Jordan
