Woods – Ontonagon, Mich.

E. Ross Woods was born in Walcott, Wyoming, on September 19, 1921. 

His family returned to Iowa when he was an infant, and he grew up on a farm east of Osceola, where the Harvest Barn sits today. 

He served in the army during WWII, including time in Okinawa, Japan. He always said he fought the war with a typewriter. 

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