Michael Stephenson Guthrie

Michael Stephenson Guthrie

Born in Birmingham, Alabama, on July 16, 1948, he lived most of his youth in Tampa, Florida, moving to Pasadena, Texas as a teenager. He met the love of his life, Georgianna Norman, at the Ritzy Drive-In, in 1969, and they were married in 1972. He passed in The Woodlands, TX on February 13, 2024, from a broken heart 7 weeks after her passing.

He is preceded in death by their unborn daughter Jasmine. He was the last of his family and was preceded in death by his father, Thomas Guthrie, and his mother Lois, brothers Mitchell and Scotty, and his sister Michelle.

He is survived by his wife’s family, Melinda Kruse, Pamela Fleener, and Anita LaBerge. He is survived by nephews, Ernest Kruse and William Kruse, nieces Marjana Durfee and Amber Merced, and numerous great-nieces and nephews.

Michael and Georgianna loved to garden in their younger years and often would rescue plants from abandoned homes. He loved cars, especially Volkswagen Beetles, and avidly would watch car shows each night.

He and Georgianna shared a love of cats, and his remaining cat, Missy, will always have a home. They had 4 cats in their lifetime, with Brazen’s ashes accompanying him in rest. Michael, though he did not belong to any particular church, was a deeply religious man. He told Melinda on his last day, that he was praying for all the sick and elderly passing his hospital room. He will be buried with his favorite Bible at his side.

He suffered from severe pain most of his later years. He is finally free. He will be missed.