On the last night of her life, Kathy Wood stood in the firelight of a Mormon girls camp in the Sierra Nevada, telling 150 teenage girls about her faith in God. That memory, captured on videotape, sustains her family now. As her brother, David Stone, said, "It's a special gift."On the way home to Folsom, Wood, a 52-year-old mother of six, died instantly in a single-vehicle accident when the Toyota truck driven by her husband, Kent, veered off Highway 50 and flipped.The accident in the early hours of June 20 badly injured Kent Wood, a stake president in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and has left the local Mormon community shaken."We talk about this calling I have," said Kent Wood, 54, who as Folsom Stake president for the past decade oversees nine congregations and helped supervise the construction of the new temple. "But it's Kathy. It's her support. She's the unsung hero in all this, quietly in the background being supportive all the time."
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