Mrs. N. Woodroof, Botanist, Peanut Researcher, at 88
GRIFFIN, Ga. - Mrs. Naomi (Chapman) Woodroof of Griffin, a retired botanist who was a pioneer researcher in peanut breeding, died Wednesday of cancer at a hospital here. She was 88.
In her more than 40 years of plant research, Mrs. Woodroof worked for the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the University of Georgia's Agriculture Experiment Stations in Griffin and in Tifton. She developed numerous strains of peanuts resistant to diseases.
Naomi Chapman was born Feb. 5, 1900, in Asotin, Wash., the daughter of Idaho sheep herdsman James Leslie Chapman and Grace (Toops) Chapman.
She was the first woman student at the University of Idaho's College of Agriculture. She received a degree in animal husbandry in 1923 and a master's degree in plant pathology in 1924.
Mrs. Woodroof was the first woman hired as a full-time staff researcher at the University of Georgia Agriculture Experiment Station.
Her husband, Dr. J. Guy Woodroof, is the retired head of the university's food science division.
Dr. Woodroof said, "She did pioneering work in Tifton on peanut breeding in the United States. Leaf spot disease had caused a lot of damage to peanuts. She worked out a program of spraying and treating peanut plants to control leaf spot disease and had hundreds of strains of peanuts that she bred trying to test their resistance to that disease. Strains of peanuts were field-tested for several years and then released to farmers."
Mrs. Woodroof was a member of the First Baptist Church here and was a past president of the American Legion Auxiliary.
Surviving in addition to her husband are a son, Jasper Guy Woodroof Jr. of Liberty Corner, N.J.; two daughters, Jane W. Akers of Chattanooga, Tenn., and Cade W. Smith of Bryson City, N.C.; a brother, Vernon Chapman of Vancouver, Wash.; a sister, Doris Babcock of Hagerman, Idaho; 11 grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.
The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Friday at First Baptist Church in Griffin, and the burial will be in the city cemetery in Woodbury, Ga.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The (GA) | 5 January 1989
Contributor: Carlynn Thatcher (49120853
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GRIFFIN, Ga. - Mrs. Naomi (Chapman) Woodroof of Griffin, a retired botanist who was a pioneer researcher in peanut breeding, died Wednesday of cancer at a hospital here. She was 88.
In her more than 40 years of plant research, Mrs. Woodroof worked for the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the University of Georgia's Agriculture Experiment Stations in Griffin and in Tifton. She developed numerous strains of peanuts resistant to diseases.
Naomi Chapman was born Feb. 5, 1900, in Asotin, Wash., the daughter of Idaho sheep herdsman James Leslie Chapman and Grace (Toops) Chapman.
She was the first woman student at the University of Idaho's College of Agriculture. She received a degree in animal husbandry in 1923 and a master's degree in plant pathology in 1924.
Mrs. Woodroof was the first woman hired as a full-time staff researcher at the University of Georgia Agriculture Experiment Station.
Her husband, Dr. J. Guy Woodroof, is the retired head of the university's food science division.
Dr. Woodroof said, "She did pioneering work in Tifton on peanut breeding in the United States. Leaf spot disease had caused a lot of damage to peanuts. She worked out a program of spraying and treating peanut plants to control leaf spot disease and had hundreds of strains of peanuts that she bred trying to test their resistance to that disease. Strains of peanuts were field-tested for several years and then released to farmers."
Mrs. Woodroof was a member of the First Baptist Church here and was a past president of the American Legion Auxiliary.
Surviving in addition to her husband are a son, Jasper Guy Woodroof Jr. of Liberty Corner, N.J.; two daughters, Jane W. Akers of Chattanooga, Tenn., and Cade W. Smith of Bryson City, N.C.; a brother, Vernon Chapman of Vancouver, Wash.; a sister, Doris Babcock of Hagerman, Idaho; 11 grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.
The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Friday at First Baptist Church in Griffin, and the burial will be in the city cemetery in Woodbury, Ga.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The (GA) | 5 January 1989
Contributor: Carlynn Thatcher (49120853
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Mrs. N. Woodroof, Botanist, Peanut Researcher, at 88
GRIFFIN, Ga. - Mrs. Naomi (Chapman) Woodroof of Griffin, a retired botanist who was a pioneer researcher in peanut breeding, died Wednesday of cancer at a hospital here. She was 88.
In her more than 40 years of plant research, Mrs. Woodroof worked for the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the University of Georgia's Agriculture Experiment Stations in Griffin and in Tifton. She developed numerous strains of peanuts resistant to diseases.
Naomi Chapman was born Feb. 5, 1900, in Asotin, Wash., the daughter of Idaho sheep herdsman James Leslie Chapman and Grace (Toops) Chapman.
She was the first woman student at the University of Idaho's College of Agriculture. She received a degree in animal husbandry in 1923 and a master's degree in plant pathology in 1924.
Mrs. Woodroof was the first woman hired as a full-time staff researcher at the University of Georgia Agriculture Experiment Station.
Her husband, Dr. J. Guy Woodroof, is the retired head of the university's food science division.
Dr. Woodroof said, "She did pioneering work in Tifton on peanut breeding in the United States. Leaf spot disease had caused a lot of damage to peanuts. She worked out a program of spraying and treating peanut plants to control leaf spot disease and had hundreds of strains of peanuts that she bred trying to test their resistance to that disease. Strains of peanuts were field-tested for several years and then released to farmers."
Mrs. Woodroof was a member of the First Baptist Church here and was a past president of the American Legion Auxiliary.
Surviving in addition to her husband are a son, Jasper Guy Woodroof Jr. of Liberty Corner, N.J.; two daughters, Jane W. Akers of Chattanooga, Tenn., and Cade W. Smith of Bryson City, N.C.; a brother, Vernon Chapman of Vancouver, Wash.; a sister, Doris Babcock of Hagerman, Idaho; 11 grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.
The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Friday at First Baptist Church in Griffin, and the burial will be in the city cemetery in Woodbury, Ga.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The (GA) | 5 January 1989
Contributor: Carlynn Thatcher (49120853
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GRIFFIN, Ga. - Mrs. Naomi (Chapman) Woodroof of Griffin, a retired botanist who was a pioneer researcher in peanut breeding, died Wednesday of cancer at a hospital here. She was 88.
In her more than 40 years of plant research, Mrs. Woodroof worked for the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the University of Georgia's Agriculture Experiment Stations in Griffin and in Tifton. She developed numerous strains of peanuts resistant to diseases.
Naomi Chapman was born Feb. 5, 1900, in Asotin, Wash., the daughter of Idaho sheep herdsman James Leslie Chapman and Grace (Toops) Chapman.
She was the first woman student at the University of Idaho's College of Agriculture. She received a degree in animal husbandry in 1923 and a master's degree in plant pathology in 1924.
Mrs. Woodroof was the first woman hired as a full-time staff researcher at the University of Georgia Agriculture Experiment Station.
Her husband, Dr. J. Guy Woodroof, is the retired head of the university's food science division.
Dr. Woodroof said, "She did pioneering work in Tifton on peanut breeding in the United States. Leaf spot disease had caused a lot of damage to peanuts. She worked out a program of spraying and treating peanut plants to control leaf spot disease and had hundreds of strains of peanuts that she bred trying to test their resistance to that disease. Strains of peanuts were field-tested for several years and then released to farmers."
Mrs. Woodroof was a member of the First Baptist Church here and was a past president of the American Legion Auxiliary.
Surviving in addition to her husband are a son, Jasper Guy Woodroof Jr. of Liberty Corner, N.J.; two daughters, Jane W. Akers of Chattanooga, Tenn., and Cade W. Smith of Bryson City, N.C.; a brother, Vernon Chapman of Vancouver, Wash.; a sister, Doris Babcock of Hagerman, Idaho; 11 grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.
The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Friday at First Baptist Church in Griffin, and the burial will be in the city cemetery in Woodbury, Ga.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The (GA) | 5 January 1989
Contributor: Carlynn Thatcher (49120853
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