Woodrow was born in 1912 to Walter H and Annie G Messer.[1] He married Margaret Horne on 16 Oct 1936.[2] He served as a b3 from Florida in the US Navy during WWII. When he passed away, he was buried in the Garden of the Last Supper, Tallahassee Memory Gardens, Tallahassee, Florida. He shares a grave marker with his wife.
Sources
"United States Census, 1920," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MNYK-2ZB : accessed 18 May 2015), Woodrow Messer in household of Walter Messer, Dellwood, Jackson, Florida, United States; citing sheet 2A, family 23, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,820,221.
"United States Census, 1930," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:STLX-C6Z : accessed 18 May 2015), Woodrow Messer in household of Walter H Messer, Dellwood, Jackson, Florida, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 0015, sheet 9A, family 177, line 26, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 321; FHL microfilm 2,340,056.
"Florida State Census, 1935," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MNV6-SSZ : accessed 18 May 2015), Woodrow Messer, Greenwood, Jackson, Florida; citing line 5, State Archives, Tallahassee; FHL microfilm 2,425,161.
"Florida Marriages, 1830-1993," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:23ZQ-MQY : accessed 18 May 2015), Woodrow Messer and Margaret Horne, 16 Oct 1936; citing Leon, Florida, United States, county courthouses, Florida; FHL microfilm 2,030,764.
"United States Census, 1940," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VTCM-BJQ : accessed 18 May 2015), Woodrow W Messer, Tallahassee, Election Precinct 9, Leon, Florida, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 37-7A, sheet 34B, family 767, NARA digital publication T627 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012), roll 597.
Information recorded by Carolyn Martin from grave marker at Garden of the Last Supper in Tallahassee Memory Gardens (cemetery), Tallahassee, Leon County, Florida, USA.
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