SHERIDAN -- Funeral service for Wilda Mae Woods, 94, will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, Feb. 2, 2007, at Champion Ferries Funeral Home with the Rev. Don Derryberry officiating. Interment will be in the Sheridan Municipal Cemetery.

She died Jan. 28, 2007, at Sheridan Memorial Hospital.

She was born Dec. 29, 1912, in Sheridan to William E. and Fern (Minster) Sonneman. As a young girl, she moved to a ranch on Prairie Dog Creek, where she grew up with her sister and brother. She was a member of the first mid-term class to graduate from the new Sheridan High School.

After high school, she worked as a receptionist and secretary for Drs. Pete and Will Schunk.

On Sept, 3, 1936, she married Clifton A. Woods in Sheridan. Her husband was a carpenter and they began building their home at 704 Gladstone in 1937, the same year their son was born.

During World War II, they traveled throughout the central United States as her husband was employed doing defense construction. He helped build the barracks at Scott Air Force Base, where their son would later take training.

When the family returned to Sheridan, she was employed at City Cleaning and Dyeing as a delivery driver. Later, she clerked at the Post Office Grocery and Boras Grocery and had her own business as a seamstress.

She was an extremely talented seamstress, always produced a large garden and was a voracious reader.

After her husband died in 1976, she remained in the family home. She became an avid quilter, completing more than 100 tops and attending quilt shows.

She appeared in a University of Wyoming video about folk art in Wyoming. She knitted, crocheted, tatted and did nearly every other kind of fancy work, all of it of excellent quality.

She was a longtime member of the Wakley Club, having joined as a young woman on the ranch, and was a member of the First Methodist Church of Sheridan.

She moved to Sugarland Ridge in May 2004.

Survivors include her son, Darrol Woods of Denver; one grandson, Clifton John Woods of Denver and one nephew of Kingman, Ariz.

Arrangements are with Champion Ferries Funeral Home.

Casper Star-Tribune - February 1, 2007