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Submitted: 9/18/12 • Approved: 10/19/23 • Last Updated: 10/22/23 • R757710-G0-S3
September 28, 1871 - August 6, 1936
*Obituary
The Benton County Democrat
Thursday, August 13, 1936
FUNERAL RITES HELD HERE FOR GEORGE WOOLSEY
Here at his old home a final tribute was paid by friends Friday afternoon at George Woolsey, aged 65, native of Benton County and long time resident of Bentonville, whose death occurred at his home at Bismark, Mo., early Thursday morning, August 6th, 1936, following several months illness.
Services at the Bentonville cemetery at 4 o'clock Friday afternoon were conducted by the Rev. R.N. Ware, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Bismark, of which Mr. Woolsey was an active member and officer. The Rev. Ware was assisted by Rev. J. Abner Sage, pastor of the M.E. Church, South, here and the two hymns used were sung by the Rev. Sage, Mrs. Sage, Mrs. Arch Wright, F.M. Brock, and B.B. Spencer. Pallbearers here were Chas. D. Haney, W.T. Dudley, K.C. Campbell, Clint Crouch, and J.W. Carithers of Bentonville and Mr. Potter of Rogers.
A service, attended by many friends, had been held at Bismark Thursday afternoon.
Recently Mr. Woolsey had been critically sick at a St. Louis hospital but had improved enough to be removed to his home at Bismark, 80 miles from St. Louis, where he suddenly became much worse a day or so before his death.
George Woolsey was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Henry Woolsey, Northwest Arkansas pioneers, and was born on the old Woolsey homestead, three miles east of this place, Sept. 28th, 1871. He was reared there spending much of his life here in Bentonville and this vicinity, and engaged in family and in a number of business enterprises here at different times.
About 15 years ago he and his wife and children moved to Enid, Okla., but after two years there moved to Bismark, Mo., where Mr. Woolsey has conducted a dairy farm for the past 13 years and where he had been prominent in church and school and civic affairs.
He became a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church after morning to Bismark, and had served for some time as chairman of its board of stewards. He also served as a member of the Bismark school board, and was keenly interested and very active in both church and school work.
Beside his wife, the former Miss Marie Leister of Rogers, Ark., Mr. Woolsey is survived by three children, Brown Woolsey, Miss Anna Katherine Woolsey and George, Jr., and by two sister, Mrs. Allie Dickson of near Bentonville and Mrs. Walter Powell of Los Angeles, Calif. There are also a number of surviving nephews and nieces, including his nephews, Gordon and Shirley Dickson of near Bentonville. Another sister, Mrs. Dick Collins the former Miss Josephine Woolsey – died about a years ago at her home at Vernon, Texas. She and her brother George, attended a family reunion at the Mrs. Allie Dickson home near here some two years ago, the last visit of either to this vicinity.
Contributed on 9/18/12 by wfields55
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