Whitesell-Somers Family Web Project - Person Sheet
Whitesell-Somers Family Web Project - Person Sheet
Obituary Online notes for William Bryan WOODYARD
William “Bryan” Woodyard, 59 years of age, of Somerset, Kentucky, departed this life on Thursday, September 3rd, 2020.

Bryan was born in Owen County, Kentucky on January 30th, 1961, son of the late Kenneth William Estill Woodyard and Hazel Jones Woodyard. He married his best friend, Tammy Ashcraft, whom he had known since high school and from Church, on October 15th, 1991 in Owen County, Kentucky. He was an auctioneer by trade, and was known to buy, sell and trade on just about anything. Over the twenty-plus years of auctioneering, Bryan had amassed close to 500 fishing poles, reflective of his love for fishing. He also loved singing in Church, in the garage, anywhere he may have been.

Bryan was survived by his loving wife, Tammy Ashcraft Woodyard; two sons, Johnathan Woodyard and Brent Woodyard; three daughters, Bernadette (and Andrew) Trapani, Jaimie (and Eli) Mann, and Brandi (and Adam) Gaines; two sisters, Barbara (and Tommy) Dunaway and Kaye Rudd; eight grandchildren, Grace, Faith, Layne, Massey, Alli, Kendall, Karmyn, and Walker; and a host of other family and friends who mourn his passing.

Bryan was preceded in death by his parents, Kenneth William Estill Woodyard, who departed this life on November 1st, 2012 and Hazel Woodyard, who departed this life on November 26th, 2017; and one brother, Kenneth Porter "K.P." Woodyard, who died in infancy on September 23rd, 1948.

A Celebration of the Life of Bryan Woodyard was held at 2:00 p.m. on Sunday, September 6th, 2020 at Paradise Acres.

Visitations were held from 5:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, September 8th, 2020 at the Stonewall First Church of God in Corinth, Kentucky.

Funeral services were held at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, September 8th, 2020 at the Stonewall First Church of God with Bro. Thomas Denney officiating.

The family has chosen cremation as final disposition. Following Tuesdays services, the family spread his cremains in a few places that were special to Bryan.

THIS IS A TRIBUTE IN MEMORY OF BRYAN,

1 Thessalonians 4. 16-18
(King James Version)

16. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:

17. Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

18. Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

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