Jack Woolf, Fresno Co. Farming Legend, Dies at 102

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Longtime west side Valley farmer John Leroy (Jack) Woolf Jr. passed away on July 28 at the age of 102.

Woolf was born on Sep. 6, 1917, along with his identical twin Leyton to John Leroy Woolf and Anna Louise Stuart at the Pima Maricopa Indian Medical Clinic in Scottsdale, Arizona.

As a child, Woolf worked on the family farm through the depression and graduated from Peoria High School in 1935.

Woolf graduated Magna Cum Laude from Woodbury Business College in Los Angeles, obtaining a three-year business degree in two years.

By Daniel Gligich | 2 Aug 2020

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