Gwendolyn Gail * Guthrie

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• Name: Teeny Guthrie

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• Name: Woody Guthrie
• Occupation: 1936, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA; folk singer

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cousin Leon Jerry "Oklahoma Jack" Guthrie
Guthrie claimed his grandmother, Mrs. Lee Tanner
Woody's uncle, Leonard Tanner

"MY MOTHER'S NAME was Nora Belle Tanner, and then she changed it to NORA BELLE GUTHRIE. Her mother was Mrs. Lee Tanner, one of the earliest log cabin school teachers in Okfuskee County, Oklahoma." ... "I am pretty positive that my mother's father, Lee Tanner, was an Irishman, and that my grandmother, Mrs. Lee Tanner, was Scottish." Excerted from My Life by Woody Guthrie.

ashes scattered over the Atlantic Ocean

The Daily Oklahoman:
Woody Guthrie Rites Today
Private funeral services are planned Wednesday in New York for Woody Guthrie, Oklahoma-born singer and songwriter who was stricken by an hereditary disease at the height of his fame.
He died Tuesday (Oct. 3, 1967) in Creedmoor State Hospital in Queens at 55. The disease was Huntington's chorea, which destroys muscle coordination. The same disease killed his mother.
Among the 1,000 songs written by the Okemah-born guitarist-singer are "This Land is Your Land" and "So Long, It's Been Good to Know You." He sang and strummed his way across the United States in the 1930's, appearing in saloons, chili joints,t country dances and in hobo jungles in 46 states.
He began writing songs, recording them and became famous. He appeared in Madison Square Garden and New York's Town Hall before the disease disabled him 15 years ago.
His autobiography, "Bound for Glory," was published in 1943.
"I hate a song that makes you think that you're not any good," Guthrie once said. "I am out to fight those kinds of songs to my very last breath of air and my last drops of blood. I am out to sing the songs that make you take pride in yourselfnd in your work."
"This Land Is Your Land," probably his most famous song, is the kind of song he described.
Guthrie was once described by Clifton Fadiman in a New Yorker magazine story as "a national possession like Yellowstone and Yosemite … part of the best stuff this country has to show the world."
In 1966, Interior Secretary Stewart I. Udall presented Guthrie with a federal government award and called him a poet of the American landscape.
Born one of five children in Okemah, Guthrie as a child sang and jigged for pennies in the streets of the oil boomtown. He dropped out of school after the 10th grade and struck out on his own.
He served in the merchant marines and the army during World War II.
Survivors include three children from his first marriage, all of California; and a son, Arlo, 19, and two daughters, Jody and Nora, of New York, born of his third marriage.Arlo is himself a folksinger.
A sister of Guthrie, Mrs. Mary Jo Edgman, lives in Seminole.

Woodrow married Mary Esta Jennings in 1933 in Pampa, Gray, Texas, USA, and was divorced. Mary was born on 28 Feb 1917 in , , Oklahoma, USA; died in in , San Bernardino, California, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Charley Guthrie
• Occupation: 1907 to 1927, Okemah, Okfuskee, Oklahoma, USA; District Court Clerk
• Occupation: 1912, Okemah, Okfuskee, Oklahoma, USA; real estate agent

Charles married Nora Belle * SHERMAN on 14 Feb 1904 in , Muskogee, Oklahoma, USA. Nora (daughter of George B Sherman and Mary Maloney) was born in 1888 in , , Kansas, USA; died in 1929 in Norman, Cleveland, Oklahoma, USA; was buried in 1929 in Okemah, Okfuskee, Oklahoma, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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No one seems to know where the HD came from. I don't know why Nora's father has a different name. In his autobiography, Woody gives his grandparents' names as Lee Tanner and Mary.

Died:
Nora has two stones. One in Highland Cemetery says 1888-1929, the other, in IOOF Cemetery, says 22 Mar 1886 to 13 Jun 1930. None of her immediate family members are at IOOF but many of them are at Highland in Okemah. I believe the stone at IOOF is for someone else, even though it says 'Mother of Woody Guthrie'.

Notes:

I have NO PROOF of any of the Guthrie line. It was compiled from sources all over the Internet. In cases where sources, disagreed, I chose the more believable information. Woody Guthrie inherited HD from his MOTHER.

George married Mary Maloney. Mary was born about 1855; died in Deceased. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Occupation: school teacher