HAWORTH, N.J. - Julia Snell Wood of Haworth, N.J., died there on Oct. 31 at the age of 86. The daughter of Katharine Kinne Snell and Cornelius Harry Snell, she was born on Sept. 20, 1920, in the old family home on North Main Street, which stood where the Herkimer Library is now located. Julia Wood attended the local schools and was valedictorian of Herkimer High School Class of 1937. In 1942, she graduated from Cornell, where she was elected to the honorary society Omicron Nu and was awarded a Danforth Fellowship. After college, she was employed in Nabisco's New York City test kitchen. Mrs. Wood joined the WAVES in 1943 and was stationed in Newport, R.I., Dearborn, Mich., and on the West Coast. After the war, she worked with her uncle, Birge Kinne, on Ivy League alumni publications. In 1948, she was married to Herkimer native John R. Wood Jr., an officer of First National City Bank in New York City. They lived in Brooklyn until moving to Haworth, N.J., in 1951, where they raised six children. Mr. Wood died in 1998. Mrs. Wood is survived by daughters, Cornelia Ferrara of Sacramento, Calif., and Margaret Wood of Haworth; sons, Richard of Brooklyn, David of Portland, Ore., Roger of Rossmoor, Calif., and John of Wilmington, Del.; and grandchildren, Laura Ferrara and Emily Wood. She is also survived by her sisters, Cornelia Bensley of Walnut Creek, Calif., Katharine Sigety of Pipersville, Pa., and Mary Martin of Stouffville, Ontario; and by brothers Harry Snell of Phoenixville, Pa., and George Snell of Haworth. Local arrangements are with Fenner Funeral Home, Inc., Herkimer.