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Wookie “Giggie” Thompson Curnutte
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Wookie “Giggie” Thompson Curnutte
BIRTH 22 Dec 1911
Lawrence County, KY
DEATH 24 Oct 1982 (aged 70)
Ironton, Lawrence County, Ohio
BURIAL Woodland Cemetery
Ironton, Lawrence County, Ohio
GPS- Latitude: 38.5084883, Longitude: -82.6515717
MEMORIAL ID90193997 ·
PHOTOS 2
FLOWERS 1
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Wookie Curnutte, 70, of 2023 S. 7th St. died Sunday at the Lawrence County General Hospital.

She was born in Lawrence County, Kentucky, a daughter of the late Minard and Mary Toler Thompson. She was a member of the Central Christian Church and lived in Ironton for 37 years.

She was preceded in death by her husband, William L.""Pop" Curnutte. She is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Daniel (Sue) Mains, of Ironton; Mrs. Tom (Jane) Willis, of Ironton' and Mrs. Richard (Katie) Maiorano, of Stone Mountain, Ga.; 11 grandchildren and eight great grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday at the Hayes-Phillips Funeral Home with the Rev. Philip LeMaster officiating. Burial will be in Woodland Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 9 a.m. until 11 a.m. Tuesday.

Contributions may be made to the Central Christian Church Memorial Fund.
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Born Matilda Elsevay Preece. "Matilda Elsevay" after her uncle's wife, and Preece, the surname of her mother's husband, although her real father was Miniard Holbrook Thompson. Preece would never grant her mother a divorce.

After, her mother died, she legally changed her name to Wookie Thompson and sued Preece for her bio father's property he left to her mother. She was granted ownership of the farm in Mattie, and house in Louisa.

She & Bill then sold those properties & rented a home in Greenup, Kentucky while Bill fixed up their new home, across the river in Ironton, Ohio. They had most of their belongings in a storage building in Louisa, Kentucky at the time that burnt down. They lost many personal things, including the family bible & pictures.

"Wookie Woo" was a nickname given to her when she was young in Louisa Ky, by a little indian boy in the Mattie area.

She was known by friends as "Wookie". The grandchildren & great grandchildren called her Gig, or Giggie. The name starting with her granddaughter, Pat, who was unable to pronounce the word "grandma".

She could cook! She always had cakes & baked goods around the kitchen & wanted to feed anyone visiting.

She was ever aware that she had 4 step-siblings. It was quite a scandalous time for her bio father before his divorce. His son Charles devasted and embarassed took a horse, as the story goes, and headed out west to Colorado and never returned to the area. He married and had 2 daughters, none of which had children.

Family Members
Parents
Miniard Holbrook Thompson
1860-1918
Mary Bell Toler Preece
1872-1932
Spouse
William Louis "Pop" Curnutte
1912-1982 (m. 1931)
Half Siblings
Frank A. Thompson
1891-1892
Children
Mary Sue Curnutte Mains
1932-2013
Gladys Jane Curnutte Willis
1942-1999
William Thompson Curnutte
1952-1952

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Left by Aunt Bee on the porch in Mayberry on 8 Feb 2013

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