VINITA, Feb. 25—Services for Pfc.
Gyppie Woodall, Vinita serviceman who was killed in 194_
near Bologna, Italy, will be conducted at 2 p.m. Friday in
the Burckhalter Memorail chapel. Burial will be in the Welch
cemetery.
The county serviceman was leading a reconnaissance patrol of
four other members when all five were killed by Germans near
Bologna. He was reported missing Oct. 22, 1944. Relatives
said that the soldiers were accidentally found in graves
near Bologna recently.
Woodall was born March 16, 1916 three miles northeast of
Welch. He was 28 years old at the time of his death. For
nine years before entering the service in 1942, he resided
in Vinita.
Survivors are his mother, Mrs. J.C. Woodall, Vinita; five
sisters, Mrs. Woody Parks and Mrs. Albert Hedgeworth, both
of Wapato, Wash.; Mrs. Buford Berry, Big Cabin; Mrs. Bill
Phillips, Chetopa, Kan., and Mrs. Effie Hecksher, North
Miami, Okla.; five stepsisters, Mrs. Nancy Morgan, Modesto,
Calif.; and Mrs. Ella King, Mrs. Allene Woodal, Mrs. Norma
Coleman and Mrs. Mary Ketron, all of Vinita; and one
stepbrother, Findley Coleman, Columbus, Kan.
From The Oklahoma, 2/26/1954
Donated by:
Emily Jordan
