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Wilda Cecil
1898 - 1989

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• Birth	4 Nov 1898	Winfield, Tennessee   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Died	1989  [1]
  Person ID	I0394	Curtis Family of Somerset Ky
  Last Modified	22 Jun 2018

  
  

  Family	William C. Curtis,   b. 27 Sep 1896,   d. Jan 1991
  Children	1. Mary Jo Curtis,   b. 1926,   d. 28 Jan 2005, sarasota, fl
  Family ID	F048	Group Sheet

  
  

• Photos

  1919 Wilda Curtis deed west side of Maple Street, Somerset KY

  
  

  Documents		William and Wilda Curtis honored 50th Wedding anniversary
  		Wilda Cecil Curtis honored picture
  		Wilda Cecil Curtis honored 1961
  		William and Wilda Curtis 1972 article by Bill Mardis

  
  

• Notes

  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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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."




• Sources

  [S02833] Mary Jo Curtis Sarasota FL 05/2002 telephone interview 941-383-1881.