Michael Leonard Curtis

Michael Curtis was born on November 2, 1954, in Dalton GA, and spent the first 6 years of his life there. He split time between his grandparents and his parents, due to his father’s work in Detroit, MI. When Michael’s parents came back to Chattanooga TN for good, in 1959, they moved to Lakeview GA - a suburb of Chattanooga TN. Michael became lifelong friends with David Harris, who lived in the same subdivision on Greens Lake Circle. Michael Curtis was the son of the late Roy Curtis and Evelyn Curtis.

Michael Curtis had a historically monumental and beautiful marriage to his wife of 50 years, Lynn Daniel Curtis. Michael graduated from Lakeview High School, in Lakeview GA, in 1972, where he proudly started at Offensive Line / Center, for the great Lakeview Warriors football team. He then attended the University of Georgia, where he met the love of his life, Lynn Daniel Curtis. While attending UGA, Michael joined the Phi Tau fraternity, which spawned many special and long-lasting relationships throughout his entire life, particularly with Allen Parker, amongst many others.

After attending UGA, Michael Curtis very wisely married Lynn Daniel and joined his father’s company, Curtis Products, in 1975 – in Chattanooga TN. After influencing his college friends, Bruce Dixon, Terry Langston, and Ed Ray, to join Curtis Products, they and other great minded individuals and friends helped begin to exponentially grow the once small vending machine company. Tragically, Michael’s father, the founder of Curtis Products, Roy Curtis, died in an auto accident in the summer of 1979, at 44 years of age. Many deaths of close family members and grandparents, filled this time of Michael’s life – but thankfully, also many births of cousins and the beginning of his own family.

Michael’s first of three sons was born just months after his father’s sudden death. Fueled by the motivation of these circumstances, Michael and his business partners, grew Curtis Products to a nationwide scale, and became titans of the Bulk Vending industry during the 1980s and 1990s. Michael moved his family and the Curtis Products headquarters to Alpharetta GA, in 1988. Curtis Products would go on to employ over 200 workers, many of whom became very successful, with offices, operations and vending services spanning the entire Country.

If you remember seeing a little yellow gumball machine, in your favorite store or restaurant as a child, then you saw a Curtis Products machine. At one point in time, 200,000 little yellow machines filled the lobbies and break rooms of nearly all 50 states. Given this widespread exposure and success, Michael formed a relationship with the March of Dimes. The Curtis Products Company was able to raise millions of dollars for the March of Dimes and became the single largest private sponsor to the March of Dimes by 1987. In 1988, Michael Curtis was invited to the White House to meet Ronald Reagan, as a result of his companies fundraising success to help defeat childhood cancer. At this meeting, Ronald Reagan was gifted a Curtis Candy machine, which dispensed jelly beans (a favorite treat popularized by the President of the U.S) and resides in the Reagan Presidential Library, to this day.

In his later years, Michael was involved in youth sports fundraising, and promotions, consulting his son’s businesses, and coaching baseball. Undoubtedly, his greatest achievement he often reflected, was his family -- His magnificent marriage of 50 years, and his unwavering presence and guidance to his sons, who will forever be bonded, in eternity.

His grandchildren were the pride of his life, and some of his happiest and most joyful days were spent with them.

Michael was a true believer in Jesus Christ, and is with him and the Father, and the Holy Spirit on this day. This world was blessed when Michael was amongst us, and now he is with the Father. We will all be together again one day – God willing, and God bless us all, Amen.

Survivors include his wife and soulmate, Lynn Daniel Curtis, and his three sons, Brant Curtis, Chad Curtis, and Nathan Curtis, and daughter in law, Lisa Curtis. Michael is also survived by four wonderful grandchildren, Alex Curtis (14) and Angel Curtis (13). Madilyn Curtis (9) Monroe Curtis (7), and their mother, Tammy Curtis. Michael was preceded in death by his older sister, Pamela Curtis (59), his mother Evelyn Curtis (92) and his father Roy Curtis (44).

Visitation will be held at Woodstock Funeral Home, Inc., 8855 Main Street, Woodstock, GA 30188, US, on November 13, 2026, from 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm with funeral service to follow at 2:00 pm.

Burial will take place at Evergreen Memorial Park, 3655 Atlanta Highway, Athens, GA 30606, US, on November 14, 2026, 1:00 pm.