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Tributes to former RAF pilot
THE funeral has taken place at St Peter’s Church, Norton, of the Rev John Woods, who had a distinguished career in the RAF before entering the Church of England ministry.
The path to the church was lined with standard bearers of the Royal British Legion.
Mr Woods, 89, who lived in Norton, had been a founder member of the Ryedale branch of the RAFA and later became its chaplain and welfare officer.
He had volunteered for the RAF Reserve in 1940 when he was 18.
He later become a commissioned pilot officer with Coastal Command and also saw service in the United States where he was assessed to be a bomber command pilot on Liberators.
He ended his military career as a squadron leader and then flew passenger aircraft for the then BOAC.
After gaining a degree at the University of Reading he was assistant manager of an 8,000 acre farm in Lincoln but he and his wife Sheila moved to Kenya where he ran an agricultural college.
He then joined the Church of England ministry where he spent nearly all of it in Yorkshire including priest-in-charge at Settrington, North Grimston, and Birdsall and Langton before retiring in 1998.
He leaves his wife, three daughters and a son, six grandchildren and one great grandchild.
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