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A graveside service for James Woods, 81, who died Feb. 24, 2021, will be held Friday, June 11, 2021, at 11 a.m., at Coughlin Memorial Cemetery. The Reverend Wayne Sawyer will officiate. To share a memory or condolence with Woody’s...

James Cecil Woods. ROCKLAND — James Cecil Woods, 81, died peacefully Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021, at the Sussman Hospice House in Rockport following a period of declining health. He was born Aug. 13, 1939 in Miami, Florida, the oldest child of the late Ester Lee Woods and Ineva Covington. Known by all who knew and loved him as Woody, he had a humble upbringing, not owning a pair of his own shoes until he was 14 years old. His children recalled him sharing stories of packing onion sandwiches to ...