 1912 - 1967 (55 years)
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| Name |
Woodrow Wilson * Guthrie |
| Born |
14 Jul 1912 |
Okemah, Okfuskee, Oklahoma, USA  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Name |
Woody Guthrie |
| Occupation |
1936 |
Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA |
| folk singer |
| Died |
3 Oct 1967 |
Queens Village, Queens, New York, USA |
| Agency: Creedmoor State Hospital |
| Cause: Huntington's disease |
| Buried |
5 Oct 1967 |
| Person ID |
I371 |
Base |
| Last Modified |
6 Sep 2017 |
| Father |
Charles Edward Guthrie, b. 1879, , Bell, Texas, USA , d. Deceased |
| Mother |
Nora Belle * SHERMAN, b. 1888, , , Kansas, USA , d. 1929, Norman, Cleveland, Oklahoma, USA (Age 41 years) |
| Married |
14 Feb 1904 |
, Muskogee, Oklahoma, USA [1] |
| Family ID |
F154 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 1 |
Mary Esta Jennings, b. 28 Feb 1917, , , Oklahoma, USA , d. , San Bernardino, California, USA |
| Married |
1933 |
Pampa, Gray, Texas, USA |
| Divorced |
Yes, date unknown |
| Children |
| | 1. Gwendolyn Gail * Guthrie, b. Nov 1935, d. 1976 (Age 40 years) |
| | 2. Sue * Guthrie, b. Jul 1937, d. 1989 (Age 51 years) |
| | 3. Will Rogers Guthrie, b. Oct 1939, d. 1960, , , California, USA (Age 20 years) |
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| Last Modified |
6 Sep 2011 |
| Family ID |
F156 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 2 |
Marjorie Greenblatt, b. 6 Oct 1917, Atlantic City, Atlantic, New Jersey, USA , d. 1983 (Age 65 years) |
| Married |
13 Nov 1945 |
| Divorced |
Yes, date unknown |
| Children |
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| Last Modified |
6 Sep 2011 |
| Family ID |
F157 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 3 |
Anneke van Kirk |
| Children |
| | 1. Lorina Lynn Guthrie, b. 22 Feb 1954, , , New York, USA , d. 1973, , , California, USA (Age 18 years) |
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| Last Modified |
6 Sep 2011 |
| Family ID |
F158 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- 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.
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| Sources |
- [S68] Oklahoma County Marriages, 1890-1995, (FamilySearch.org), Guthrie, Chas E.
to Nora B Sherman, 14 Feb 1904, Muskogee County
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