Carol B. Wood

FLORENCE – Carol Barneycastle Wood, 79, died peacefully at home Wednesday, June 6, 2018, after an extended battle with cancer.

Funeral services will be 2:00 p.m., Friday, June 8, 2018, at Mount Hope Mausoleum Chapel, directed by Waters-Powell Funeral Home. The family will remain after the service to receive friends.

Carol was born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, a daughter of the late Paul and Ruby Young Barneycastle. She graduated from Needham B. Broughton High School in Raleigh, NC, in 1957, and subsequently from Peace College, also in Raleigh, in 1959. During her time as a student at Peace College, she served as President of Phi Theta Mu and President of Theta Kappa Honor Society. She was chosen Sigma Chi Sweetheart in 1961 at North Carolina State University while her future husband, Jim Wood, was president of that chapter.

Shortly after graduation the two married and Carol went to work in banking until becoming a stay-at-home mother, a job at which she excelled, supporting her children in all their extra-curricular activities and adventures. She was an excellent and a generous cook, delighting friends and neighbors with delicious gifts from her kitchen long after she was no longer strong enough to cook. She always found a way.

In 1982, upon the founding of J. M. Wood Johnstone Supply Company, she supported her husband by going to work in the office until retiring from that position in 2006.

She was a long-time member of St. John’s Church in Florence and an avid supporter of the House of Hope, the Florence Little Theater, and the Florence Ballet Company for which she enjoyed many years of designing and sewing costumes. She also enjoyed friendship and dancing as a member of the Florentine Debutante Club.

Survivors include her husband, James McConnell Wood, of the home; two daughters, Angela McConnell Woodberry and her husband, Robert (Archie), of Florence, and Shannon Wood Newton and her husband, Peter, of Tetbury, United Kingdom; a brother, Cary Barneycastle (Stephanie) of Raleigh, NC; four grandchildren, Robert Kyle Woodberry of Columbia, SC, Kenneth James Woodberry and Blair McConnell Woodberry, both of Florence, and Jamie Peter Newton of Tetbury, UK.

Memorials may be made to Youth Mentors of the Pee Dee, P. O. Box 12147, Florence, SC 29504.

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The family will greet friends following the service.

Friday, June 8, 2018
2:00 PM

Mount Hope Mausoleum Chapel
100 Cherokee Road
Florence, South Carolina 29501

The family will greet friends following the service.

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