A funeral Mass for Woodson B. "Woody" Daspit will be celebrated by Rev. James LeBlanc on Tuesday, November 18, 2008 at 11am at St. Mary Help of Christians Catholic Church. Interment will follow at Calvary Cemetery. Visitation will be on Monday evening from 6-8pm at George Funeral Home & Cremation Center, 211 Park Ave. SW Aiken. The Holy Rosary will be recited at 6:30pm. Mr. Daspit, 82, of Aiken, died Friday, November 14, 2008 at Aiken Regional Medical Centers. A son of the late Robert Valentine Daspit and Margaret Butler Daspit, he was born in Houma, LA on March 11, 1926 and began his first job in 1942 as a chemical analyst for South Coast Sugar Company. He briefly attended LSU, but joined the US Marine Corps in June of 1944, serving in the Pacific Theatre on Saipan and Okinawa during the war and for 8 months after in China. He was honorably discharged in July, 1946. He then re-entered LSU and graduated with a degree in Physics in 1949. He was a varsity letterman on the track team and was also commissioned as a 2nd Lt. He then worked as a civilian scientist at the Naval Ordinance Station at China Lake, CA. He once again returned to LSU earning a Masters Degree in Physics and was elected to membership in Sigma Pi Sigma and Sigma Xi Honor Societies. He was also a member of the American Nuclear Society. He began his career with Dupont in 1952 and arrived at the SRP in 1953, working with the experimental physics group before retiring in 1986. After that he worked in various consulting capacities for Westinghouse and Bechtel. A communicant of St. Mary Help of Christians Catholic Church, he was a past president of St. Mary's School PTO, past chairman of the parish council, served on the Diocesan School Board for 6 years, five as Chairman. He was also a facilitator of the parish parochial council and was an Extraordinary Minister of the Eucharist for over 20 years and brought Communion to many of the sick and shut in of the parish. He was a charter member of Msgr. George Lewis Smith, Council #3684 of the Knights of Columbus and served as a past chairman of the Calvary Cemetery Committee. He was also a member and past-president of the Aiken -Augusta Orchid Society. In addition to his parents, he was pre-deceased by his first wife, Ray Mary Decandt Daspit who died in 1995, a granddaughter, Jessica L. Moler and several brothers and sisters. He is survived by his wife Erninia U. Daspit, Aiken, two sons; John W. Leslie Daspit, Columbia, SC and Thomas G. Patty Daspit, Morgan Hill, CA, two daughters; Mary D. Raymond Dufour, Aiken, SC and Jennifer G. Daspit, Charleston, SC, three sisters; Agnes Kennedy, Houma, LA, Katharine Daspit, Houma, LA and Louise Geary, New Orleans, LA, five grandchildren; Amanda L. Daspit, Allison L. Dufour, Jonathon W. Daspit, James W. Daspit and Max R. Dufour. He is also survived by his wife's son, Brian J. Kauer and his wife, Kim and their two children, Hayley A. and Brandon J. Kauer.