Mabel Mangrum Wood, 98, of Franklin Springs, GA, passed away on Thursday, September 9, 2021. Born November 21, 1922 near Floyd County, Va., she was the daughter of the late D.C. and Pearl Dehart Mangrum. She was a member of the Franklin Springs Pentecostal Holiness Church. She also, with her husband, served as a missionary in South Africa from 1953-1961.
She is also preceded in death by her husband, Rev. Roy Wilson Wood; and daughters, Elizabeth Boykin and Paulette Abbott.
Survivors include her son and daughter-in-law, Baxter and Thressa Wood; grandchildren, Laressa (Calum) Mackenzie of Fort Myers, Fla., Laurel (Jonathan) Murrow of Farmington, Ga., Paul “Bo” (Mary) Boykin, Jr. of Ila, Ga., Tyler (Randi) Boykin of Bishop, Ga., and Andrea Walker of Kamloops, BC, Canada; great grandchildren, Austin, Alex, and Jake Hendry, Madeleine, Ella, and Sophie Murrow, Glenn and Gus Boykin, Bo and Molly Boykin, and Kesh and Kiran Fellenz; great-great grandson, Grayson; and many other family members and friends.
Graveside services will be held at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, September 14, 2021, in the Appalachian Conference Cemetery in Dublin, Virginia.
The Wood family is in the care of Mullins Funeral Home & Crematory in Radford, Virginia. www.mullinsfuneralhome.com
[Editor's Comment: It has been my distinct honor and privilege to have known Roy and Mable Wood. Roy served as the field representative for the World Missions Ministries when I was a young pastor in Alabama at the Brownville Pentecostal Holiness Church. I had learned about how to plan, develop, and carry out a Missions Convention from Dr. J. T. Seamands at Asbury Theological Seminary and saw it in full operation at the Wilmore United Methodist Church, when David Seamands was the senior pastor. Roy Wood worked with me in conducting the first missionary convention in the Pentecostal Holiness Church. I enlisted Joel McGraw, pastor of the Flomaton P. H. Church, and Kenneth Dantzler, pastor of the Mobile P. H. Church to join with us in a round robin missionary convention. Roy Wood, field director of World Missions told me that this missionary convention was the first to be held in local churches in our denomination. As I recall, we set a goal for our Brownville Church of $1,000 and we had faith promise commitments of over $3,000. The next year we expanded the number of churches and pastors to include, J. W. Stewart, Leon O. Stewart's father, at the Greenville P. H. Church, and my pastor, O. N. Todd, Jr. pastor of the First Pentecostal Holiness Church in Birmingham.
I send my love, prayers and condolences to Baxter and Thressa Wood and their families.
She is also preceded in death by her husband, Rev. Roy Wilson Wood; and daughters, Elizabeth Boykin and Paulette Abbott.
Survivors include her son and daughter-in-law, Baxter and Thressa Wood; grandchildren, Laressa (Calum) Mackenzie of Fort Myers, Fla., Laurel (Jonathan) Murrow of Farmington, Ga., Paul “Bo” (Mary) Boykin, Jr. of Ila, Ga., Tyler (Randi) Boykin of Bishop, Ga., and Andrea Walker of Kamloops, BC, Canada; great grandchildren, Austin, Alex, and Jake Hendry, Madeleine, Ella, and Sophie Murrow, Glenn and Gus Boykin, Bo and Molly Boykin, and Kesh and Kiran Fellenz; great-great grandson, Grayson; and many other family members and friends.
Graveside services will be held at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, September 14, 2021, in the Appalachian Conference Cemetery in Dublin, Virginia.
The Wood family is in the care of Mullins Funeral Home & Crematory in Radford, Virginia. www.mullinsfuneralhome.com
[Editor's Comment: It has been my distinct honor and privilege to have known Roy and Mable Wood. Roy served as the field representative for the World Missions Ministries when I was a young pastor in Alabama at the Brownville Pentecostal Holiness Church. I had learned about how to plan, develop, and carry out a Missions Convention from Dr. J. T. Seamands at Asbury Theological Seminary and saw it in full operation at the Wilmore United Methodist Church, when David Seamands was the senior pastor. Roy Wood worked with me in conducting the first missionary convention in the Pentecostal Holiness Church. I enlisted Joel McGraw, pastor of the Flomaton P. H. Church, and Kenneth Dantzler, pastor of the Mobile P. H. Church to join with us in a round robin missionary convention. Roy Wood, field director of World Missions told me that this missionary convention was the first to be held in local churches in our denomination. As I recall, we set a goal for our Brownville Church of $1,000 and we had faith promise commitments of over $3,000. The next year we expanded the number of churches and pastors to include, J. W. Stewart, Leon O. Stewart's father, at the Greenville P. H. Church, and my pastor, O. N. Todd, Jr. pastor of the First Pentecostal Holiness Church in Birmingham.
I send my love, prayers and condolences to Baxter and Thressa Wood and their families.