Jimmie Woodard

August 28, 1942 - November 19, 2007

Jimmie Earnest, son of Margaret Jane (Oliver) and James Earnest Woodard was born on August 28, 1942 at Alva, Oklahoma. He passed away at the Alva Share Medical Center on the 19th of November at the age of 65 years, 2 months, and 22 days. He attended the Centerview Rural Grade School and attended Freedom High School his freshman year. He then moved to Lebanon, Kansas and graduated with the class of 1960. After high school he moved backed to Freedom and worked on numerous ranches in the area. He served in the Oklahoma National Guard from July 1962 and was discharged in 1969. On July 18, 1964 he was married to Sharon Lee (Sherrie) Yeager at the Alva West Side Church of Christ. To their marriage three children, Kurtis, Bretta and Marlo, were born. Following their marriage they lived on the farm, and ranch, where he was born and raised northwest of Freedom. From February 1965 to June 1972, Jimmie worked for the county under Vernie Hackney. After working for the county he started his own business working on windmills, until he became Woods County Commissioner in January 1987. Along the way he worked in the oil field and owned Cimarron Inn and 25 & Plum. Later raised Buffalo and started the Freedom Buffalo Meats Co. He was preceded in death by his father on November 21, 1965 and his mother on October 12, 2002. Jimmie is survived by his wife Sherrie, of the home; two daughters, Bretta Woodard and Marlo and her husband Austin Smith; a son and his wife, Kurtis and Paula, two granddaughters, Lacy and Kassidy all of Tonkawa; father figure, Oliver Knabe and wife Elsie, of Woodward; two sisters and their husbands, Marilyn & Ray Coulter, of Okeene and Shirley & Jerry LeClair, of Eldon Missouri; and a brother in law, Walter Yeager and his wife Linda, of Alexandria, Louisiana. Nieces and nephews Bonnie and Tom Troutt, of Paris, Texas, James and Laura Opitz of Weatherford, Trish States, of Alva, Maria Moore of Hardtner, Kansas, Michelle and Steve Eck of Sharon, Kansas, Lisa Leclair of Oklahoma City and Jason LeClair of Monett, Missouri, Alicia Yeager, of Springfield Illinois, Michael Yeager, of Springfield, Missouri;. Special "family members" Susie, Gina Rae, Austin and Seth, and other relatives and friends. PDF Printable Version