Lyons "Pete" Donald Woody

    “Pete” Lyons Donald Woody, 87, of Gooding, Idaho passed away on February 15, 2025, in Gooding, Idaho. Private Family Services and memorial will be held.

     Pete grew up in Hagerman, Idaho on his family’s homestead along the snake river and the rimrock (R.M. Woody’s Grandfather). They moved to a ranch in Tuttle, Idaho next to his grandfather, where he graduated in 1956 from Hagerman High School. Pete worked for the US Forest Service out of the Stanley, Idaho area one summer on the 4th of July Ranger Station, building trails and packing into the wilderness.

     He joined the Navy at the end of summer of 1965 in San Diego, California and received jet engine mechanics training in Tennessee.  He was then sent to Moffat Field, California as a VF213 fighter squadron where he made two cruises to South East Asia.

     Pete was united in marriage to Karen Lee Crouse on January 26, 1961 in Gooding, Idaho.  He re-enlisted into the Navy and went to B school in Memphis, Tennessee for jet engines and test cell mechanics and transferred to Point Mago, California.  He was appointed Chief Test Tell operator and sent to Viet Nam on the US Ranger for 9 months.  He returned home following his honorable discharge and went to work in Seattle, Washington for Boeing Aircraft working on their jets.

    He was hired by Bell Rapids and set up a 28,000-acre irrigation project for the next 3 years where his was able to work alongside his wife in Idaho.  They later moved to Montana where he worked again for the Forest Service as a mechanic and a firefighter for the next 27 years at the Trout Creek Ranger station in Trout Creek, Montana.  Pete and his wife and 3 children lived in Heron, Montana in a house that he was proud to have built himself.

   In 1994, he retired and moved back to King Hill, Idaho so he could help care for his elderly parents until their passing. After 14 years, Pete and Karen decided to make one more move to Challis, Idaho in 2016 where he enjoyed riding his 4-wheeler in the hills near their home and watching the abundant wildlife right outside his back door.

   Pete is survived by his wife Karen Woody of Gooding, Idaho; daughter Leela Schafer of Nampa, Idaho; son’s Donald (Rachel) Woody of Wellsville, Utah and Timothy (Carmen) Woody of South Daytona, Florida; seven grandchildren: Rebecca, Halee, Chelsea, David, Jacob, Sydney and Vinny; Great Grandchildren: Henry and Harry Kast, Asher and Archer Burnworth, Ellie Hunter, Walker Mitchell and Weston Woody and sister Helyn (Steve) Haase of Kuna, Idaho.

   Pete was preceded in death by his parents, two brothers: Nicky and Larry Woody.

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