Born Jan. 15, 1947, in Morehouse, son of the late Raymond and Irene Marie Breeden Curd, he was a 1965 graduate of Morehouse High School and Ivy Tech. He was a U.S. Army veteran of the Vietnam War, was employed by Delco Electronics and was a self-employed artist. He was a member of the Eastern Woodland Carvers Club and National Woodcarvers Association.
On Nov. 8, 1969, in Atlanta, he married Barbara J. DeLong who survives of the home.
Other survivors include: one son, Jason M. Curd of Indianapolis; one daughter, Lori Curd of Nashville, Tenn.; one sister and brother-in-law, Clydie and Dyer Garner of Sikeston, Mo.; and several aunts and uncles.
Services were conducted Nov. 16 at the Ellers Mortuary.
Burial followed in the Greenlawn Cemetery at Greentown.
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