Charles Woods Sr.: Dead at 72

Viewers may be wondering why I am handling the anchoring duties this week, as well as working as a News Five reporter. The reason is that I am trying hard to fill the shoes of my long time friend and colleague, Jacqueline Woods Godwin. Jackie is out this week because of the sudden death of her father, Charles Woods Senior, who succumbed to a massive heart attack on Saturday morning. Funeral arrangements, complicated by the threat of Hurricane Dean, have now been set for Friday afternoon at three at Holy Redeemer Cathedral. Woods was a long time executive in the insurance industry and was very active in civic and church affairs. In recent years, he increasingly turned his attention to agriculture, expanding his holdings in the Stann Creek Valley and spending significant time developing his farm off the Hummingbird Highway. Although it is not widely known, Woods was one of two people who shared the top prize for the naming of the new capital, Belmopan. He is survived by his wife Edith Nella Woods nee Rogers, daughters Jackie, Silvana, Charlene, Debbie, Jenny, Melanie and Valerie and son Charles Junior, better known as Chuck. We at News Five extend our sincere condolences to the family. Charles Woods: dead at the age of seventy-two.