Curtis Vernon Wood, Jr.

Mr. Curtis Vernon Wood, Jr., 30, of 904 Hoke Street, Kannapolis, died Saturday, September 20, 2003, at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, NC from injuries received in an automobile accident. Funeral services are scheduled for 3:00 PM Wednesday, September 24, 2003, at Lane Street Church of God. Rev. Wade Easom will officiate. Entombment will follow at Carolina Memorial Park. The family will receive friends from 6 to 9:00 PM Tuesday at Lady's Funeral Home. At other times, the family will be at the home of a sister, Kelly Ledbetter, 205 Oakdale Avenue, Kannapolis. Mr. Wood was born October 17, 1972 in Concord. He was the son of Brenda Chewning Wood of Kannapolis and the late Curtis Vernon Wood, Sr. He was an Emergency Nurse and was employed by HRMC at Moses Cone Hospital in Greensboro. He formerly worked at NorthEast Medical Center in Concord and Albemarle Hospital in Elizabeth City, NC. At the age of 13, he became a champion motocross competitor. He truly loved his family and was a member of Lane Street Church of God. One of the things he loved best was riding his Harley and taking his son boating and fishing. He graduated with honors in 1991 from Northwest Cabarrus High School where he was named to Who's Who in Americas High Schools and was inducted in the National Honor Society. He also served as a governor's page while attending high school. He graduated from Louise Harkey School of Nursing in 1995 and achieved accreditation as a trauma nurse, BLS instructor, and was appointed a medical examiner for Cabarrus County. Mr. Wood, in addition to his mother, is survived by his wife, Catherine Kilpatrick Wood; son, Keethen Levi "Little Bean" Wood; two sisters, Tracy Wood Tyson and her husband, Wayne, and Kelly Wood Ledbetter and her husband, Billy, all of Kannapolis; two nieces, Meredith Miller and her husband, Sammy, and Ashley Tyson; two nephews, David Tyson and Brendon Tyson; two great nieces, Madison Miller and Zoie Miller.