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Article: Active San Leandro community member Leroy Woods dies at 100
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- May 27, 2006
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SAN LEANDRO -- Leroy "Roy" Woods did a lot things in the past
century.
As an active San Leandro community member for 75 years, Woods
served on the San Leandro City Council and Planning Commission in the
late 1960s and early 1970s.
He also managed to find love twice in his lifetime -- married to
his first wife, Velma, for 40 years and to his second wife, Elaine,
for 34 years.
Woods, who was born in Avon, Ill., died Tuesday, May 23, 2006, in
Hayward. He was 100.
According to family members, Woods leased a service station for
many years when he and his family first moved from Illinois to San
Leandro in the 1930s, and then started bartending as a side job in
the evenings. He then became the ...