VIEWING, SERVICES SET FOR WOODHALL COLLEGE TRUSTEE 'WILL BE SORELY MISSED'.Byline: Greg Botonis Staff Writer PALMDALE - Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley residents will gather Saturday to mourn the loss of one of their civil and political leaders: Wayne Woodhall, who died Monday in a freak home accident. The 59-year-old former aerospace engineer, who was elected to the Antelope Valley College Antelope Valley College is a comprehensive community college located in Lancaster, California, USA. It is operated by the Antelope Valley Community College District, with a primary service area of 1,945 square miles covering portions of Los Angeles and Kern counties. board in November 1999, was killed about 1 p.m. Monday at his Cheseboro Road home, authorities said. ``Wayne was very active in the community and very proactive in doing things for the college,'' said Board President Michael Adams
Michael Adams (born November 17, 1971 in Truro, Cornwall, England) is an International Grandmaster of chess. . ``He will be sorely missed. We just hope we can fill the gap somehow.'' Viewing for Woodhall will be held from 4 to 8 p.m. today in the chapel of Joshua Memorial Park & Mortuary, 808 E. Lancaster Blvd. Services will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at First Presbyterian Church First Presbyterian Church is a generic church name, and can refer to hundreds of churches within the English speaking world. If you followed a link here, please consider making it more specific by including the city or town in which the church resides. , 1850 E. Ave. R in Palmdale. Interment will follow at Glen Haven Glen Haven may refer to:
Antelope Valley College will fly its flags at half-staff until after the services. Woodhall was killed Monday by a vehicle at his rural Palmdale home. He had been changing the oil on one vehicle when a second vehicle started rolling toward it, a Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County Coroner's Office report said. He tried to stop the second vehicle but was dragged beneath it. Woodhall had been an active member of the community for nearly two decades. He had been a clerk on the Antelope Valley College board for just over a year before being elected vice president in December. He had run unsuccessfully for the high school board in 1997. Woodhall had been president of the Antelope Valley Republican Assembly, a 23-year-old organization of conservative Republicans, many of whom hold local political offices. From 1971 to 1981, Woodhall taught in the Los Angeles Unified School District The Los Angeles Unified School District (the "LAUSD") is the largest (in terms of number of students) public school system in California and the second-largest in the United States. Only the New York City Department of Education has a larger student population. and later went to work for Northrop Grumman as an engineer. He had been working most recently as an instructor at Correctional Corp. of America's prison in California City. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color) WOODHALL |
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