Lovell B Woods - 298th Engineer Combat Battalion, WWII, WW2
Lovell B Woods
Source: Find A Grave
Lovell Bradford Woods
BIRTH 11 Mar 1922, Virginia
DEATH 4 Jul 1958 (aged 36), Tyler Mountain, Kanawha County, West Virginia
BURIAL Tyler Mountain Memory Gardens, Cross Lanes, Kanawha County, West Virginia
MEMORIAL ID 132961477
Source: The Charleston Daily Mail, Nov. 19, 1944, page 11
Soldier From Tad German Prisoner
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Woods of Tad have received word through International Red Cross that their son, Pvt. Lovell B. Woods is a prisoner of the German government. The soldier previously had been reported missing in action since Aug. 7. In service since November, 1940 Pvt. Woods has been overseas since January, 1942. He has a brother, Freddie F. Woods, who is serving in France.
Source:WW2pow.info
Name: Lovell B Woods
Ser. Number: 15047290
Grade: Private
Service: Army
Arm: Corps Of Engineers
First Report: 08/07/1944
Last Report: 06/30/1945
Race: White
Residence: West Virginia
Organization: Engineer Combat Battalion
Parent Unit: 0298
Unit Type: Battalion Training Battalion Combat Special Troops
Area: European Theatre France
Source: Official Sources
Status: Liberated Or Repatriated
Detaining Power: Germany
Camp: Stalag 7a Moosburg Bavaria 48 12 Work Ca
Source: CHARLESTON DAILY NEWS - VOLUME 131 - No. 4 - Charleston, West Virginia, Friday Evening, July 4, 1958
Stabbed Tad Man Left Dead In Yard
Big Tyler Fatality Charged to Ohioan
A young Cleveland man stabbed a friend to death and seriously injured his own brother with whom he had been visiting here in an argument at 5. a.m. today over an automobile accident, Trooper C. W. Tighe of the State Police said. Franklin Bowles, 27 of 522 Bolton Ct., is a patient in Charleston General Hospital with a stab wound in the back under the right shoulder blade. He suffered severe shock and required a blood transfusion.
Orville Bowles, 23, has been charged with murder, Tighe and Trooper A.R. Bruce said.
Mrs. Kelly told police she was awakened by a loud argument in front of her home on U.S. 35 and saw the men fighting. She said one of the men later identified as Woods evidently staggered to near her front porch, collapsed and died.
TROOPERS CHASE CAR
Police said Mrs. Kelly got the license number of the automobile as two men sped away in it. Tighe and Bruce, hurrying to the scene, saw the automobile being driven toward Charleston. They attempted to flag it. The driver ignored them. They turned around and chased the car to the forks of Big and Little Tyler Roads. There they stopped it. Bruce accompanied the Bowles brothers to the hospital in a Cunningham ambulance. Tighe went on to the Kelly home to
investigate.
From witnesses and what was overheard, it seems these men were arguing about an automobile accident. They were in the car together and had been out all night,
Tighe said.
Where the accident occurred we do not know,
he continued.
It seems that there was no other car involved. Franklin Bowles and Woods were attempting to keep Orville Bowles quiet. They had stopped the car and there was a fight. Orville was knocked down. He came up with a pen knife and the cuttings followed.
The wound in the chest of Woods is about an inch and a half across. Dr. Golf P. Lilly, Kanawha County coroner, said the man died of internal bleeding. He estimated that death occurred a few minutes after the injury was inflicted.
D. Lilly later this morning performed an autopsy on Woods and found that the knife had penetrated the left ventricle of the heart.
Orville Bowles did not know that Woods had died until informed by Tighe and Bruce.
We have been unable to get very much out of him,
Tighe said. He is not sober enough to talk.
Mrs. Kelly said the three men argued for about 15 minutes before the fatal fight erupted. The scene is about 35 feet from the front porch of her home, located on a sparsely settled section of road on the other side of Big Tyler Mountain.
Tighe and Bruce could not immediately learn where the men had been during the night.
Woods was a veteran of World War II, received the Purple Heart for wounds received in combat action, and was a one–time prisoner of war.
He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Woods of Chester, Ohio, and a brother, Fred Woods, of Pinch.
Relatives said the slain man had spent much of his time in Chester but that his home is at Tad.
The body is at the Cunningham Funeral home.
CHARLESTON DAILY NEWS - VOLUME 131 - 84 - Charleston, West Virginia, Friday Evening, October 6, 1958
Guilty Pleas Entered by 2 Indicted Men
Two men, one of whom killed a man and another who tried robbery, entered guilty pleas Monday in Intermediate Court.
Orville Dale Bowles, 23, of Cleveland, charged with the July 4 slaying of a friend, pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter.
He will be sentenced by Judge William J. Thompson on Oct. 10.
Lovell B. Woods, 36, of Tad, a Campbell Creek community, died within minutes after Bowles stabbed him in the heart with a pen knife. He collapsed and died in the lawn of a home in the 4900 block of Little Tyler Mountain. State troopers said Bowles had been arguing about an automobile accident with Woods and a brother, Franklin Bowles, 27, of 523 Bolton Ct. The brother suffered knife wounds in the fight. Police said the dead man and the brother were trying to pacify the accused man and had stopped the car and gotten out when the fatal fight erupted. The Cleveland resident was visiting his brother here at the time.
CHARLESTON DAILY MAIL - VOLUME 131 - 89 - Charleston, West Virginia, Friday Evening, October 11, 1958
Knife Slayer Given 1 to 5
A Cleveland man yesterday was given one-to-five years in prison for the July 4 slaying of Lovell B. Woods, 36, of Tad. Orville Dale Bowles, 23, pleaded guilty Monday to voluntary manslaughter in the penknife slaying of Woods. Intermediate Court Judge William J. Thompson recommended that Bowles serve his time at Huttonsville. Formerly of Kanawha County, Bowles reportedly stabbed Woods to death when Woods attempted to break up a fight between Bowles and his brother. Franklin C. Bowles, 27, of 522 Bolton Ct. The altercation took place on the lawn of a home on Big Tyler Mountain Road.
Listed in After/After Action Reports 26 July - 1 Dec 1944:
LOSSES IN ACTION - H&S Co - 7 AUGUST 1944
Pvt Lovell B. Woods 15047290
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