Marvin Aurelius Woolen, Jr.

A funeral service will be held at 1:00 p.m., Saturday, January 12, 2019, at Hanes Lineberry North Elm Chapel. The family will receive friends following the service. Burial will be held at Greenwood Serenity Memorial Gardens in Montgomery, AL early next week.

He was the son of Marvin Aurelius Woolen, Sr. and Mary Nelle Green Woolen, born in Spartanburg, SC and raised in Atlanta, Ga. He grew up on Bellaire Drive and was known as a “Buckhead Boy” all around good guy, well liked and fun. He attended R L Hope Elementary and North Fulton High Schools, Graduating in 1958. Involved in the Science Club, Latin, Pro Club, Officers Club/ROTC, Rifle Team, Debating Club and Hi-Y Club, he was very involved in High School life. Going on to attend Vanderbilt University, he was a member of Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity, where he met his first wife in Nashville and was married in 1962. They lived in Atlanta, GA, where he worked with his father in the cotton business and had two daughters before moving to Memphis, TN for two years.

In 1972, Marvin was hired by Weil Brothers-Cotton, Inc. to take over the management of their operations in Montgomery, Alabama. He was in charge of all aspects of merchandising cotton grown in the Texas and southeastern cotton states. His success in that position was extraordinary, and at the age of thirty three, he was made a vice-president of the company.

While serving with Weil Brothers, he was elected president of the Atlantic Cotton Association and later the American Cotton Shippers Association, both well-respected industry organizations that represented the cotton trade in both regional and international venues. In 1988, Marvin was recruited by the Rollins family of Atlanta, Georgia, to establish and serve as president of a new merchandising firm which would purchase all U.S. cotton growths for distribution in both domestic and international markets. Rollins Cotton Company opened for business in July of 1988, and was successfully managed by Marvin Woolen for several years prior to his acceptance of a managerial position at Cone Mills in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Marvin served as Vice President of Cotton Purchasing at Cone Mills and its successor company Cone Denim, an ITG Company, from July 5, 1995 through April 4, 2009. Marvin managed cotton for Cone’s U.S., Mexican, Nicaraguan, and Chinese facilities.

Marvin served as Director of Cotton Risk Management, at Frontier Spinning Mills, Sanford NC, from October 9, 2009 through June 30, 2017. Marvin managed cotton price risk for Frontier’s five U.S. yarn manufacturing facilities.

Marvin was preceded in death by his daughter, Laurie Lee Woolen. Surviving family members are his current wife, Connie Jean Seward Woolen, daughter Leslie Woolen Fraser from his marriage to Wanda Wear Woolen, granddaughter Charlotte Wear Fraser Smith (John Barker Barrett, III), great-granddaughter Virginia Alice Weare Smith; and his son James William Woolen from his second marriage; and dear friends Stuart Fraser, John Bakane, Tom Cantrell and others who meant a great deal to him.

Memorial contributions may be made to ALS Foundation, 4 North Blount Street, Suite 200 or to

University Hospital, 1350 Walton Way, Augusta, GA 30901; please designate for the Special Care Nursery.

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