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Ancel Velton Woodard

Obituaries

April 20, 2022

Ancel Velton Woodard

Ancel Velton Woodard, 81, of Jena, passed from this life on Sunday, April 17, 2022, at LaSalle General Hospital in Jena. He was born on May 21, 1940 in Rhinehart to the union of his parents, Velton Charles Woodard and Claria Bell Pippins Woodard.

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