Sylvia Ellen Woodall

Sylvia Ellen Woodall

Sylvia Ellen Woodall, age 85, a resident of Fort Scott, Kansas, passed away Sunday, May 12, 2024, at the Guest Home Estates in Fort Scott. She was born April 30, 1939, in Pleasanton, Kan., the daughter of John Emery Henderson and Mary Olive Wilcox Henderson. Sylvia graduated from the Pleasanton High School. She married David Allen Woodall on Jan. 31, 1960, in Miami, Okla. Sylvia was a devoted wife and mother. She enjoyed cooking and sewing and caring for her family.

Survivors include her three children, Beverly Rast (Walter) of Coolidge, Ariz., Robert Woodall of Branchville, S.C., and John Woodall of Fort Scott, Kan. Also surviving are 17 grandchildren and 37 great-grandchildren. Sylvia was preceded in death by her husband, David on Dec. 1, 2016. She was also preceded in death by a daughter, Susan Crosby, a son, David Nolen Woodall, a great-grandson, Lance Haley, Jr., a brother, Emery Henderson and a sister, Frances Campbell.

Graveside services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Thursday, May 16 at the U.S. National Cemetery. Friends and family will meet at the cemetery. Following services, the family will have a time of visitation at the Carriage House, 301 S. Main St. The family will also receive friends from 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Cheney Witt Chapel. Memorials are suggested to the Sylvia Woodall Memorial Fund and may be left in care of the Cheney Witt Chapel, 201 S. Main, P.O. Box 347, Fort Scott, KS 66701. Words of remembrance may be submitted to the online guestbook at cheneywitt.com.