The Rev. Nelson Charles Woody
2022
The Rev. Nelson Charles Woody of Bristol, VA, passed away on February 14, 2022, at The Waters Lakebridge in Johnson City. He was born in Edgewood, MD on April 16, 1929, to Wythe B. and Minnie Parks Woody. Soon thereafter they moved home to Smyth County, VA. Nelson graduated from Marion Senior High School in 1946, Hiwassee College, Emory and Henry College and the Theological School at Drew University in New Jersey, where he met his wife, Ruth. Nelson felt the call to Christian ministry in his high school years and was licensed to preach at the age of seventeen. He was a Member of the Holston Conference of the United Methodist Church for seventy years. His pastoral appointments included...