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.
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