Marie LeGrande Wood

b. 9 February 1909, d. 17 April 1983
  • Marie LeGrande Wood was born on 9 February 1909 in Singleton, Grimes County, Texas.
  • A photographic portrait was made of sisters Marie and Mavinee Wood, about 1917.
  • She was educated at University of Texas, at Austin, at Texas graduating circa 1930 with a BA & MA in English.
  • Milton LeGrande Wood and Sallie Roberta Floyd appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1930 in Anderson, Grimes County, Texas. Other members of the household included Marie LeGrande Wood, Mavinee Elizabeth Wood.
  • She officially witnessed the death of Milton LeGrande Wood on 27 October 1945 in Anderson, Grimes County, Texas.
  • She married Gary Pinkney Pearson, son of Keller Pearson and Mary Ora Hughey, on 16 August 1956, and had no children.
  • Marie LeGrande Wood died on 17 April 1983 at age 74 in Grimes County, Texas.
  • She was interred at Odd Fellows Cemetery, Anderson, Grimes County, Texas.
  • Mavinee Elizabeth Wood's husband William H. Fuqua Jr. was a second cousin of Gary Pinkney Pearson who married Mavinee's sister Marie LeGrande Wood. WHF Jr.'s paternal grandmother Elvira Jane Hughey was a sister of GPP's maternal grandfather Henry Boozer Hughey.
  • Last Edited: 15 May 2015

Family: Gary Pinkney Pearson b. 10 April 1895, d. 16 May 1962