| In Memoriam Woodrow Wilson Bledsoe (2007) | |||||||||||||
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| by mathematics and recalls spending "hours just roaming around, sometimes working mathematics problems mentally" (Bledsoe 1976). When Woody was 12, his father died. It was a devastating blow both emotionally and financially. As Woody recalled, "We were poor before, but after papa died in January 1934, things got worse" (Bledsoe 1976). He and the rest of his brothers and sisters worked dreary 10-hour days to make ends meet. Woody ran away from home at 16. He found work in north Texas driving a tractor all night. After a month, he hopped a freight train to Colorado to visit his brother, who was working in a Civilian Conservation Corps camp. After a few weeks, he made his way to the south Texas town of Calliham, where he lived with some friends for a year. He graduated from high school during that year (1939). Woody then returned to live with his mother, who had moved to Norman, Oklahoma. He took a job as a dishwasher, working 12-hour days 7 days a week. He enrolled at the University o | |||||||||||||
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