She was born in 1908 and was 99 at the time of her death in Ocean Springs.
How blessed is that, to be able to honor her memory on her birthday, and the wisdom she brought to those around her. According to the obituary, Curtis was born in the Daisy Vestry community. She moved away and lived in several states before returning to South Mississippi.
Annie Curtis, who had been married to the late Bruce Curtis, was a devoted nurse and special aunt to her many nephews and nieces. She was a longtime member of St. Paul Methodist Church in Ocean Springs.
Preceding her own passing were her parents, Joseph and Matilda Jane Hawley, one sister and five brothers.
Through the years Annie A. Curtis saw numerous changes in the world. Let's see what they were.
Jan. 26, 1908 -- Birthday of Stephane Grappelli, British jazz/violinist
Jan. 26, 1918 -- President Hoover calls for "wheatless" and "meatless" days for war effort
Jan. 26, 1928 -- No information found.
Jan. 26, 1938 -- No information found.
Jan. 26, 1948 --Executive Order 9981, end segregation in U.S. Armed Forces signed; Ignaz Friedman, composer, dies at 65
Jan. 26, 1958 --H Laskow replaces Moshe Dayan on as Israeli minister of Defense; Jack Smith takes over for Art Baker as TV host of "You Asked for It": Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Lake Worth Open Golf Invitational
Jan. 26, 1968 --Israeli submarine Dakar crashes in Mediterranean Sea, 69 die; Death of Weegee and Arthur Fellig, both American photographers, and Kenneth Scott Latourette, American historian.
Jan. 26, 1978 --Strikers riot in Tunisia, killing about 40; Mario Soares forms Portuguese government; International Ultraviolet Explorer placed in Earth orbit; Frank Herbert completes his novel "Destination: Void"; Leo Genn, actor (Lady Chatterley's Lover, Henry V), dies at 72
Jan. 26, 1988 --Australia's 200th anniversary-parade of tall ships in Sydney Harbor; "Phantom of the Opera" opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 4,000+ performances; Death of Raymond Williams, Welsh novelist.
Jan. 26, 1998 -- Intel launches 333 MHz Pentium II chip; President Clinton says "I want to say one thing to the American people I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky"; 25th American Music Award: Spice Girls and Babyface win; Music educator Shinichi Suzuki "developed the ""Suzuki Method"" which taught violin to children", dies at 98; Walter Edmonds, writer (Drums Along the Mohawk), dies at 93
May 06, 2007 -- 11 U.S. soldiers and a Russian journalist were in Iraq, six of them in Diyala when a roadside bomb struck their vehicle; Pro-American conservative Nicolas Sarkozy was elected president of France; a massive tornado obliterated most of Greensburg, Kansas, killing eight. Two others died elsewhere during weekend weather across the Plain states.
