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1ST GOLDEN WEST PRINCIPAL
Wofford served for nearly 30 years
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Lloyd and Letha Wofford share their scrapbook memories of family and educational pursuits. - photo by GLENN KAHL/The Bulletin
Lloyd Wofford — who served for nearly three decades as principal of Golden West Elementary School on North Main Street — is still going strong at age 94.In fact he’s so active that his grandson Brandon said he still has to get on him for getting on the roof to fix the air conditioner.“He was a soldier, a peach and grape picker, a carpenter, a cabinet maker, a house builder, a real estate salesman and an educator,” Brandon said proudly, noting his grandfather also built a modern home in Ripon. Wofford was the first principal of Golden West School when it opened in 1961. He had been in the Army infantry in Okinawa during World War II ready to go into the sure death invasion of Japan when the atom bomb brought the war to an end.Lloyd and his wife Letha were born in farm houses in central Oklahoma seven miles apart.