Georgia Catherine Compton
(1915-1989)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. Ernest "Wade" McCutchan

Georgia Catherine Compton 2 3 4

  • Born: 24 Oct 1915, Greenville, Floyd, IN 2 3 4
  • Marriage (1): Ernest "Wade" McCutchan on 24 Dec 1988 in Georgetown, Floyd, IN 1
  • Died: 8 Oct 1989, Noblesville, Hamilton, IN at age 73 2 3 4
  • Buried: 11 Oct 1989, Floyds Knobs, Floyd County, IN 2 3 4

   FamilySearch ID: GQ22-ZNM.

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Census in 1940 in Knoxville, Knox, TN. 5 The 1940 census recorded renting a home: E. Wade McCutchan, service man for freight trucking firm, 28, living with wife Georgia, 24, and daughter Alice Janet, 5 months old when the census was recorded on 11 Apr 1940. The parents were born in Indiana and Alice in Tennessee. In 1935 the parents lived in Floyd, Indiana.

2. Newspaper: The Noblesville Ledger: McCutchans to celebrate 50th, 17 Dec 1988, Noblesville, Hamilton, IN. 1 McCutchans to celebrate 50th (photo)
Mr. and Mrs. E. Wade McCutchan, Route 1, Arcadia, will celebrate their golden wedding anniversary on Saturday, Dec. 24. Wade and the former Georgia Compton were married in Georgetown, by the Rev. O.O. Klrkham. They lived at rural Sheridan in the late 1950s and early '60s. Following that time they moved to Arcadia, where they have lived for more than 20 years. He retired from farming and from Allison Division CMC. She is a homemaker. They have one daughter, Mrs. Stephen (Alice) Beeker of Traverse City, Mich.; and three grandchildren. The McCutchans plan to spend their anniversary with their granddaughter, Gail Folsom, and her husband, Randy; daughter and her husband, Dr. and Mrs. Stephen Beeker, and their children, Julie and Bruce; and Georgia's twin sister and her husband, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Baker, Floyd Knobs.

3. Cause of Death: cerebral anoxia due to endstage ovarian carcinoma, 8 Oct 1989, Noblesville, Hamilton, IN. 4

4. Residence: RR 1 Box 283, Arcadia, IN on 8 Oct 1989 in Arcadia, Hamilton, IN. 4

5. Obituary: Noblesville Ledger: obituary of Georgia Catherine McCutchan on 9 Oct 1989 in Noblesville, Hamilton, IN. 3 Georgia Catherine (Compton) McCutchan, 73, R.R. 1, Arcadia, died Sunday, Oct. 8, at Riverview Hospital. Born OcL 24, 1915. in Greenville, she was the daughter of Edgar and Jessie (McCory) Compton. Married Dec. 24, 1938, to Ernest Wade McCutchan, she had lived in Floyd County and Indianapolis before moving to Hamilton County in 1957. She was a housewife who also worked for several years as a cafeteria manager at School No. 44 in Indianapolis. She was a member of Arcadia Christian Church, Ruth Circle, Christian Women's Fellowship, Boxley Christian Sisterhood and Brotherhood, and had taught Sunday school for several years. Surviving are her husband; one daughter, Alice Beeker, Traverse City, Mich.; a twin sister, Laura Baker. New Albany; and three grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Hartley Funeral Home in Arcadia, with the Rev. Mark Coffey officiating. Friends may call from 2 to 8:30 p.mTuesday at the funeral home in Arcadia. Calling will also be from 4 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Dleckmann Funeral Home in New Albany, Ind. Graveside rites will be conducted at 10 a.m. Thursday at Chapel Hill Cemetery near Borden, Ind., in Floyd County.


Georgia married Ernest "Wade" McCutchan on 24 Dec 1988 in Georgetown, Floyd, IN.1 (Ernest "Wade" McCutchan was born on 29 Aug 1910 in Borden, Clark, IN,6 7 died on 31 May 2002 in Traverse City, Grand Traverse, MI 6 7 and was buried on 3 Jun 2002 in Floyds Knobs, Floyd County, IN 6 7.)


Sources


1 "The Noblesville Ledger (Noblesville, IN)," 17 Dec 1988, page 4.

2 Find A Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/45784872.

3 "The Noblesville Ledger (Noblesville, IN)," 9 Oct 1989, page 12, obituary of Georgia Catherine McCutchan.

4 Ancestry.com, "Indiana, U.S., Death Certificates, 1899-2017," Certificate 89-036455 Georgia Catherine McCutchan father Edgar Compton mother Jessie McCory spouse Ernest Wade McCutchan informant.

5 1940 United States Census, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K4HB-DCH E Wade Mccutchan, Ward 7, Knoxville, Civil District 1, Knox, Tennessee, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 97-15, sheet 4A, line 21, family 81.

6 Find A Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/45784867.

7 "The Noblesville Ledger (Noblesville, IN)," 7 Jun 2002, page 2, obituary of Ernest McCutchan.



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