Samuel Foster Wood, Fairchance, Pa.

     Samuel Foster Wood, “Sam The Corn Man”, 94 of Fairchance, Pa.died peacefully, January 17, 2018 at Horizon’s Personal Care Home in Fairchance, Pa.

     Sam was preceded in death by his parents, Charles Edgar Wood and Charity Mae Bowlen Wood; his loving wife, Elizabeth Francis McKnight Wood; infant daughter, Pamela Deane Wood; sisters, Wanda Jean Wood Riggar and Eleanor Jane Wood Freeman and a brother, Franklin William Rice.

     Sam is survived by his wife, Carolyn Hockenberry Wood; children, Marsha Lynn Wood Tracey and husband Steve Tracey of Charleston, WV, Debra Jo Sidani and husband Walid Sidani of Cleveland, Ohio, Mary Elizabeth Myers and husband William Myers of Fairchance, Pa., Samuel Charles Wood and his wife Cheryl Cunningham Wood of Fairchance, Pa., Melonie Kay Lewellen and husband Jerry Lewellen of Uniontown, Pa. and Natalie M. Burd and husband Richard of Uniontown, Pa.; 12 grandchildren; 5 great grandchildren; 1 great great grandchild and his brother, Darrell Elroy Wood and his wife Gola Faye Petty Wood of Delaware, Ohio.

     He was born November 12, 1923 in Fairchance, Pa. and graduated from Fairchance High School Class of 1941. After graduation, Sam served as a signalman in the U.S. Navy. Sam worked as a coal miner at Kyle and Collier mines. He was very proud of his 20 years as a miner, often telling stories of his coal mining days. At the same time, Sam started the Wood Dairy Farm with his father Charles. He was an astute farmer using the latest agronomic and dairy practices. Sam and his father had a retail dairy store on the Hopwood-Fairchance Road for more than 40 years. Sam loved to farm just as much as he loved to mine coal and for many years held the two professions simultaneously. After Sam retired from coal mining and the dairy business, he began a new occupation, selling sweet corn for his daughter and son-in-law at the corner of Morgantown Road and Brownfield Lane for many years. He loved talking to the many customers he had at the sweet corn cart telling them it was the best corn in Fayette County. Also he would ask them “Guess how old I am?” Sam also enjoyed planting many beautiful flowers with great success. He also enjoyed his many cats.

     The family will greet friends and family in the Dean C. Whitmarsh Funeral Home, 134 West Church Street, Fairchance, Pa. on Thursday from 7 to 9 p.m., Friday 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. and on Saturday, January 20, 2018 from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. The funeral service begins at 1:30 p.m. with Reverend Kenny Rockwell officiating.

     Interment will follow in Mountain View Memorial Park, Brownfield, Pa.

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