Freda Rose Woods

May 24, 1919 - July 29, 2016

Freda Rose Bornschein Woods, previously of Hindsville, Arkansas, died July 29, 2016 at Baptist Hospice House in Memphis. Tennessee. She was born on May 24, 1919 in Ellsworth, Kansas, the daughter of Herman and Essie Evans Bornschein. She was the salutatorian of her high school class in Ellsworth, and then attended Kansas State Teachers College in Emporia, Kansas, where she was a member of Sigma Sigma Sigma sorority and received a degree in primary education. On September 2, 1944, she married Thomas Edward Woods (January 17, 1919-February 2, 2014), also of Ellsworth, Kansas. They moved to Wichita, Kansas, where he practiced law for seventeen years. In 1962, they retired to a farm near Hindsville, Arkansas with their three daughters. Freda is survived by her three daughters and one son-in-law, Elaine Woods Hansen and Douglas Hansen of Seattle, Washington, Gail Woods Duncan of Memphis, Tennessee and Martha Woods of Houston, Texas; She is also survived by two grandsons, two granddaughters and one great-granddaughter, Justin and Brandy Duncan and their daughter Keara; Seth Duncan and Carrie Billings; and Laura Duncan, all of Memphis, Tennessee and Eva Hansen of Seattle, Washington. A memorial service will be held at 11:00 A.M. on Saturday, August 6, 2016, in the chapel of Brashears Funeral Home with The Reverend Les Elam of Hindsville First Baptist Church officiating. Private interment will be in the Buckeye Cemetery under the direction of Brashears Funeral Home www.brashearsfuneralhome.net of Huntsville, Arkansas.