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- NEWS: Excerpts from The Somerset Journal, 18 June 1920
Mrs. William Curtis will leave today for Fort Thomas, Ky., to visit her uncle
Captain Cecil.
NEWS: Excerpts from The Somerset Journal, 22 April 1921
Mrs. Will Curtis is visiting her father at Evarts, Ky.
Miss Carrie Harrison, a pupil in the Somerset Business College, is working
for Judge R.C. Tartar in the absence of Mrs. Will Curtis.
NEWS: Excerpts from The Somerset Journal, 26 Aug 1921
Mrs. Wilda Cecil Curtis, County Road Engineer, has been absent from her duties at
the court house this week on account of illness.
Excerpts from Somerset Journal, 21 Nov 1919
Mrs. William Curtis left Sunday for a visit with her father Mr. R.C. Cecil at
Anchorage, Ky.
NEWS: Excerpts from the Somerset Journal, 7 Nov 1919
A lad by the name of George Bullock was sent from this county to the reform
school at Greendale last week. Mrs. Will Curtis and Miss Ann Hamm
accompanied him.
Lexington Herald-Leader (KY) - June 8, 1988
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Deceased Name: SOMERSET -- Wilda Curtis
SOMERSET -- Wilda Curtis, 89, of Britthaven Nursing Home, a former Pulaski County deputy circuit court clerk, quarterly court clerk, and judge's office secretary, wife of William "Bill" Curtis, died Monday at the nursing home. Mrs. Curtis also was a former interim Pulaski County judge and a former president of the Business & Professional Woman's Club. Services 10 a.m. Friday at Somerset Undertaking Co. Visitation after 4 p.m. Thursday.
- August 1921 Mrs. Wilda Curtis was most likely the first woman in Kentucky to be named a County Road Engineer. She was appointed by Judge R.C. Tartar, Judge of the Pulaski County Court.
"She is a young woman of unusual executive ability and will make the county an efficient road engineer."
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