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Charles Lewis Woodhurst was born at Abbeville, SC on May 18th 1934 to Claude Hamilton (1) Woodhurst and his wife Mayzelle Susan Argo.
He married Mary Louise M. Moore of Anderson, SC, the daughter of William Lee Moore and his wife Lettie Ruth (nee) Wilson.
He and Mary produced one child, Rose Machelle Woodhurst. Rose Machelle married Jackie Rogers and produced a child Addie Louise in 1988.
He graduated as a mechanical engineer from Clemson University in 1959, joined the Army in 1960 and then pursued a distinguished Army aviation career. He served in Vietnam, Germany and England, and reached the rank of Colonel. He gained numerous military awards including the Distinguished Flying Cross. During his army career he also obtained an MBA degree from the University of Georgia and an MA degree from the University of Southern California. In 1984, whilst in England, he undertook further postgraduate studies at the University of Cambridge. In 1986 he was appointed US Military Attache in Nepal.
He died aged 68 on March 24th 2003 at the Flowers Hospital in Dothan, Alabama. He had been residing at 36081 Troy, Pike County, Alabama. His obituary was published on March 29th 2003 in The Montgomery Advertiser. He was buried on April 14th with full military honours at the Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia.