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Grace Woodward

Services will be 10 a.m. Wednesday at Edmaiston-Mosley Funeral Home. Brother Ed Decker will officiate. Burial will follow in East View Cemetery.
Visitation will be held at the funeral home 5-8 p.m. today.
Pallbearers will be Adam Campbell, James Fagan, Todd Faulkner, Bobby Barber, Joseph Rother and Frank Hawks.
Mrs. Woodward was born April 7, 1919, in Nebo, Ill., daughter of the late George Iva and Minnie Katherine (Pelican) Sutton. She married Robert Franklin Woodward June 4, 1938. He died Nov. 14, 1986. Mrs. Woodward was a homemaker and attended Union City Baptist Temple.
She is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Linda and Leonard Nelson of Union City; her son and daughter-in-law, Robert “Butch” and Laura Woodward of Union City; her sister, Eva Buss of Dallas; nine grandchildren, Lisa Lynn Ogden, Dale Woodward and Keith Woodward, all of Union City, Robert Glynn Nelson of Obion, Brian Anderson Nelson of Woodland Mills, Mike Woodward of Newbern, Tammy Darnell of Indiana and Bobby Eugene Woodward and Nevin Woodward, both of Wickliffe, Ky.; several great-grandchildren; and four great-great-grandchildren.
She was also preceded in death by her son, Rowland Eugene “Ronnie” Woodward; her granddaughter, Lori Lynn Nelson; two sisters, Edith Sutton and Evelyn Morley; and four brothers, Marion Sutton, Ed Sutton, Emmett Sutton and Paul Sutton.
To leave messages of condolence for the family, visit the funeral home website at www.emfuneralhome.com.