2008
Jack McCue Woolard, 86, a retired tax law specialist with the Internal Revenue Service, died of aspiration pneumonia Dec. 12 at
Brakebill Nursing Home in Knoxville, Tenn. He was a former Wheaton resident.
Mr. Woolard was born in Charlottesville and grew up in the District. During the Depression, he helped his father sell coal and ice
from a horse-drawn wagon. He graduated from McKinley Technical High School in 1940 and attended Strayer Business
College in 1941 and Columbia Technical Institute, where he studied drafting, in 1942. From 1941 to 1944, he worked as a
machinist at the Naval Gun Factory at the Washington Navy Yard.
He enlisted in the Army in 1944 and fought with the 95th Infantry Division, 377th Regiment, Company F. A "Victory Division"
combat soldier, he was also one of the "Iron Men of Metz," so named for the 1944 battle for the fortresses surrounding Metz,
France. He was awarded a Bronze Star.
After Mr. Woolard was discharged in 1946, he graduated with a commercial science degree in 1948 from Benjamin Franklin
University (now part of George Washington University). He joined the IRS that year and worked with the agency for 40 years.
Mr. Woolard was a member of Fifth Baptist Church when he lived in the District. In the 1950s, he moved to Wheaton, where he
attended First Baptist Church, serving as treasurer, deacon and scoutmaster. He moved to Knoxville in 1998.
Survivors include his wife of 62 years, Ruth-Dell Woolard of Knoxville; four children, Russell E. Woolard of Knoxville, Mark A.
Woolard of Marietta, Ga., Jennifer L. Jarnigan of Newport, Tenn., and Zoe Woolard of Middletown; a sister, Barbara Murray of
Salisbury; 14 grandchildren; and one great-grandson.
-- Joe Holley