Woodrow Wilson Guthrie was born on July 14, 1911 in Okemah, Oklahoma.  Woody was named after the then soon-to-be elected president and was the son of businessman and local politician, Charles Edward Guthrie.  Woody’s mother, Nora Belle Guthrie was a homemaker who later died of Huntington’s disease- a neurological disease that Woody also inherited. Although […]