Dr. Joseph Corder Woofter, F.A.A.D, and erstwhile Captain successful the United States Army, 83, passed distant November 30, 2022, successful his home, surrounded by his closest loved ones, conscionable arsenic helium wished.
Joe, affectionally known arsenic “Doc,” was calved July 7, 1939, successful Parkersburg, W.V., to the aboriginal Andrew C. Woofter, M.D. and Martha E. (Corder) Woofter. He attended Parkersburg High School but, owed to a flimsy misunderstanding with Mr. Conner, the erstwhile Principal and an ill-placed firecracker, subsequently graduated from Virginia Episcopal School successful Lynchburg, V.A. successful 1958. He past enrolled astatine the University of Michigan but returned location to postgraduate from Marietta College with a B.S. successful Biology, having recovered Michigan upwind disagreeable, noting Michigan had “nine months of wintertime and 3 months of mediocre sledding.” Afterward, helium attended the Medical College of Virginia, during which clip helium met the emotion of his life, Mary Ellen (Lindsay) Woofter. Following his graduation from aesculapian school, they were wed connected September 20, 1969.
Joe past promptly enlisted successful the United States Army arsenic a Captain, wherever helium served arsenic a General Medical Officer. Following his honorable discharge, helium returned to Parkersburg and worked for the precocious Oliver H. Brundage, M.D., arsenic a General Practitioner. He became Board Certified to signifier medicine successful the authorities of West Virginia successful January 1972. He past applied to and was accepted into the University of Missouri School of Medicine’s Department of Dermatology, wherever helium completed a three-year-long residency. He and Mary Ellen past returned to Parkersburg successful the autumn of 1975. He opened his bureau connected August 1, 1976, wherever helium maintained his backstage aesculapian signifier for the past 42 years.
Everyone who knows Joe knows helium cared profoundly for his patients and maintained his dedication to their wellness until the time helium died. Often patients would inquire erstwhile they could travel to spot him, and his modular reply was, “when tin you get here?” For that precise reason, galore of his patients person remained with him for 20 years oregon better. Perhaps the lone happening helium loved much than practicing dermatology was his family, successful particular, his daughter, her husband, and his 4 grandchildren, who were the pome of his eye.
Joe is survived by his girl Annemarie C. Woofter-Maggard and her hubby Bradley M. Maggard of Parkersburg, and their 4 children, Joseph, Michael, Lindsay, and James Prestley Maggard; nephew Andrew C. Woofter (and woman Val), and their 5 children Annie, Sarah, Drew, Nelson, and Steven Woofter each of Parkersburg; and niece Anne W. Romance (and hubby Lance) of Marathon, FL, and their daughters, Autumn and Amber. He is preceded successful decease by the emotion of his life, the precocious Mary Ellen Woofter, and his elder member Andrew C. Woofter, II.
Services volition beryllium Monday, December 5, astatine 11:00 A.M. astatine First United Methodist Church, Parkersburg, with Pastor Stacy Hoover officiating. Burial volition beryllium astatine Mt. Olivet Cemetery with subject honors by American Legion Post 15. Visitation volition beryllium Sunday from 2-4 and 6-8 P.M. astatine Leavitt Funeral Home, Parkersburg, and 1 hr anterior to the work astatine the Church.
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