Antoinette Guernsey
1894 - 1981 (87 years)
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Name Antoinette Guernsey Born 04 Jan 1894 Chicago, Cook County, Illinois 
[1, 2] Gender Female Died 17 Oct 1981 Puyallup, Pierce County, Washington [1, 2, 3] Buried El Carmelo Cemetery, Pacific Grove, Monterey County, California Person ID I169 Gage and Shook Families Last Modified 27 Oct 2022
Father Charles Arthur Guernsey, b. 03 Nov 1854, Oneida County, New York , d. 02 Jul 1940, Santa Clara County, California (Age 85 years) Mother Mary Vick Bryant, b. 21 Oct 1859, Palmyra, Portage County, Ohio , d. 04 Feb 1950, Seaside, Monterey County, California (Age 90 years) Married 11 Jun 1890 Cook County, Illinois [4] Divorced Bef 1930 [5] Family ID F68 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Charles Nelson Burnham, b. 28 Sep 1895, Middlefield, Middlesex County, Connecticut , d. 6 Jun 1979, Meriden, New Haven County, Connecticut (Age 83 years) Married 1917 Children 1. Antoinette Chevalier Gay, b. 12 Oct 1920, Wheatland, Platte County, Wyoming , d. 02 Jan 2007, Markleeville, Alpine County, California (Age 86 years)2. Bryant Guernsey Gay, b. 31 Aug 1918, Wheatland, Platte County, Wyoming , d. 30 Nov 1956, Merced County, California (Age 38 years)Last Modified 27 Oct 2022 Family ID F145 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 2 Milus Osgood Gay, b. 05 Sep 1902, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania , d. 26 Jan 1995, Puyallup, Pierce County, Washington (Age 92 years) Married 1 Jul 1925 [6] Children 1. Henry Guernsey Gay, b. 16 Nov 1926, Wheatland, Platte County, Wyoming , d. 03 Jan 1999, Shelton, Mason County, Washington (Age 72 years) [natural]2. Beverly Gay, b. 15 Jul 1928, Wheatland, Platte County, Wyoming , d. 28 Nov 2021 (Age 93 years)Last Modified 27 Oct 2022 Family ID F67 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Born - 04 Jan 1894 - Chicago, Cook County, Illinois 
Died - 17 Oct 1981 - Puyallup, Pierce County, Washington 
Buried - - El Carmelo Cemetery, Pacific Grove, Monterey County, California = Link to Google Earth Pin Legend 
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Headstones Guernsey, Antoinette Bryant
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Notes - Antoinette Gay Oct 17, 1981
Antoinette Guernsey Gay, a former Pacific Grove resident and a reporter for several years for The Herald, died in Puyallup, Wash., after a prolonged illness Oct. 17. She was 87.
Mrs. Gay was active in newspaper work for 39 years, from 1925 when she became a reporter on the then Peninsula Daily Herald until 1964 when she and her husband, Milus Gay, also a former Herald reporter, sold their interest in a weekly newspaper in Buckley, Wash., and retired. The couple published the Monterey Trader, a weekly newspaper, from 1933 to 1954.
Mrs. Gay was brought by her mother, Mary Bryant Guernsey, as a little girl from Chicago to Pacific Grove, where she attended elementary and high schools.
Mrs. Gay was a member of the Pacific Grove High girls basketball team that won a tri-county championship in 1911, and was described as a “jumping center” on the team. She also wrote the words and music for Pacific Grove High’s school song, “All Hail, Pacific Grove.”
After high school, Mrs. Gay was a social worker for the Child Welfare Society on the lower East Side of New York City. When she returned to Pacific Grove after World War I, Mrs. Gay taught a private kindergarten class, filling a need not provided then by public schools.
In 1933, she and her husband started the Monterey Trader, which got its name from the “trade warrants” issued by the city of Monterey as a means of financing unemployment relief.
In 1941, she wrote a condensed history of the Presidio of Monterey from 1770 to 1940 for the city of Monterey.
She was elected to the Monterey County Democratic Central Committee in 1936. Two years later, she was appointed to the state Democratic Central Committee.
Mrs. Gay is survived by her husband; a son, Henry G. Gay of Shelton, Wash.; and daughters, Antoinette G. Korngold of Palo Alto and Beverly Gage of Buckley, Wash.; 12 grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren.
A son, Air Force Maj. Bryant G. Gay, died in the crash of a B-52 bomber in 1956.
Private memorial services have been held in Buckley. Cremated remains will be buried in the family plot of her husband’s great-grandfather in El Carmelo Cemetery in Pacific Grove. [6]
- Antoinette Gay Oct 17, 1981
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