 A two-room school served elementary grades until 1966 when the school was consolidated with the nearby Abbotsford Public Schools.Perhaps the most famous person to come out of the Village of Curtiss was Army Colonel Franklin Matthias, who oversaw the construction and early operation of the Hanford Site during World War II.The young Colonel Matthias was so proud of his work that he accompanied the first plutonium produced at Hanford to Los Alamos.