Maybelle W. Curtis, age 81, of Richton Park, formerly of Chicago, beloved wife of the late Anson “Curt” Curtis (Aug. 1969); loving stepmother of Robert A. (Randlin R.) Curtis and Mary Ann Curtis Martin; beloved grandmother of four; great-grandmother of six; dearest aunt of Patricia (Charles) Lynch, Marianne (Frank) Zito, Maribeth Woodward, Dorothy (Philip) Pokryfke, William G. Woodward, Thomas (Linda) Poyer, John (Arabella) Woodward and George Woodward; loving great-aunt of Kathleen Lynch, Meghan Pokryfke, Jennifer Mosqueda, John Lynch, Anthony Zito, Peter Lynch, Frank Zito Jr., Thomas Zito, William McCarthy and Thomas Woodward; loving companion of “Pumpkin”; and friend of many. Employed as Office Manager with US News & World Report magazine for 35 years, retiring in 1979. Volunteer at Ingalls Memorial Hospital Gift Shop. Visitation 3 to 7 p.m. Sunday at Hirsch Funeral Homes, Lincolnway Chapel, 3501 W. Lincoln Hwy., Matteson. Funeral Mass 10 a.m. Monday at St. Lawrence O’Toole Church, 214th and Governors Hwy., Matteson. Interment Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Worth. Memorials may be made to American Cancer Society, South Cook Area Office, 6720 W. 167th St., Suite 3, Tinley Park, IL 60477. 708-748-8031.
