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In eight years, Give Piedmont Local has raised more than $7 million for nonprofits in Fauquier and three other counties. Your dollars have great impact. By giving together, we are building a stronger, more vibrant community. Thank you for being part of Give Local Piedmont and for investing in your communityâs future. Northern Piedmont Community Foundation For the second consecutive year, Give Local Piedmont raised more than $1.2 million for nonprofits in Fauquier and three other counties.
With 3,397 donors participating, the 24-hour online campaign concluded at midnight. In eight years, it has raised more than $7 million.
The Warrenton-based Northern Piedmont Community Foundation organizes the fundraising blitz, which this year has 197 participating nonprofits in Fauquier, Culpeper, Rappahannock and Madison counties.
Obituaries » Jerry M. Wood Jerry M. Wood, 83, of Warrenton, a retired pharmacist who served in the Virginia House of Delegates and on the town council, died Friday, January 8, 2021, at the Novant Health UVA Prince William Medical Center in Manassas of complications from COVID-19.
He was born April 15, 1937, in Roanoke, to the late Jeannette Jackson Minter Wood and William Howard Wood.
He graduated from Andrew Lewis High School in Salem 1957 and from the Medical College of Virginia School of Pharmacy in 1962.
Mr. Wood worked at pharmacies in Fredericksburg and Culpeper before coming to Warrenton in 1968 to join the Rhodes Drug Store staff. He owned and operated the Fauquier Pharmacy on Main Street from 1972 until he sold his business to Rite Aid in 1992. Mr. Wood continued as a family pharmacist with Rite Aid until his retirement in 2005.
⢠Work: Pharmacist in Fredericksburg, Culpeper and Warrenton, 1963-2005; owner/operator, Fauquier Pharmacy, Warrenton, 1972-92.
⢠Government: Appointed to Warrenton Town Council (Ward 1), 2014-16; elected to four-year term, 2016; retired from council, 2020; Virginia House of Delegates (31st District), 1991-93; served on the Virginia Board of Pharmacy and Virginia Board of Health Professions.
⢠Community: Boys & Girls Club of Fauquier, Literacy Volunteers of Fauquier, Mental Health Association of Fauquier, Fauquier/Warrenton Optimist Club, Warrenton Rotary Club, Fauquier Free Clinic, Fauquier County Democratic Committee, St. Jamesâ Episcopal Church, Fauquier Cancer Society and others.
⢠Education: Medical College of Virginia School of Pharmacy, 1962; Salem High School.
⢠Family: Wife Coleen; six children, and 12 grandchildren.