CROWN POINT â Friends and family gathered Monday afternoon to honor Bruce Woods, a beloved Lake County historian and educator.Â
Rev. Mark Wilkins, senior pastor at First United Methodist Church of Crown Point, said those gathered at Burns Funeral Home â in person or via Facebook Live â were there to honor Woods greatness. It is sadly trite to begin a funeral service by saying that we come to remember a great man, Wilkins said. The reason I say sadly is because greatness has become somewhat of a demeaning term in our modern culture. We attribute greatness to anyone from our greatest heroes all the way down to somebody whose chief skill is hitting 3-pointers in overtime. Â