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Edward Joseph Woods, USMC, Rio Rancho, New Mexico, August 31, 1919 - August 21, 2002, 83 years old, Ed was a native son, born in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He was raised by parents Edward and Josephine Cain and attended Albuquerque High School. He entered the US Marine Corps in 1944 and served in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II. He was posted in Nagasaki, Japan, serving in the post-war Japanese Homeland Occupation for ten months helping the surviving Japanese population. Ed returned to civilian life for a short period of time living in Los Angeles, California. He returned to Albuquerque, New Mexico to stay in the early 1950's. Ed married Bettie Millicent Coen in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1966. Ed worked for many years as a maintenance foreman at the Casa Grande Lodge and at Sandia Bank both in Albuquerque. He served on the Board of Directors for the Golden West Condominium Association where he lived until his passing. An avid fisherman and outdoorsman, Ed lovingly took his family on numerous camping and fishing outings. Survivors include wife, Bettie Millicent (nee Potter) Woods; sisters, Evelyn Edwards, Rio Rancho, New Mexico, and Rosemary Smiley, Los Altos, California; son, Joseph Riley Woods, Biloxi, Mississippi; step-children, George M. Coen, Evergreen, Colorado, Bettie M. Coen, Rio Rancho, New Mexico, Richard E. Coen, Texas, Patty A. Coen, Santa Fe, New Mexico and Thomas P. Coen, Placitas, New Mexico; and numerous grandchildren. Ed's family expresses deep and heartfelt gratitude to the Anna Kaseman Presbyterian Hospice staff and requests in lieu of flowers memorials can be made to the Presbyterian Hospice, 8100 Constitution Place, NE, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87120. The Celebration of Life will be at 5:00 p.m. on Saturday, August 24, 2002 at First Baptist Church, Rio Rancho Boulevard, Rio Rancho. Interment will be at Vista Verde Memorial Park in Rio Rancho.
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