Obituary of Helen Thornill Gay  of Richland Parish Louisiana
as published in the Richland Beacon News, September, 2001
Submitted by for the USGenWeb Archives by Dot Golliher, 08/16/2004



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Helen Thornhill Gay

Covington, LA.
Funeral services of Helen Thornhill Gay, 87, of Rayville,
were held at 2 P.M. Sunday September 23, 2001, At Sharp’s 
Chapel Church of God. Burial followed in Sharp’s Cemetery,
under the direction of Mulhearn’s Funeral Home of Rayville.

Mrs. Gay died Thursday, September 20,2001, at the Richardson
Medical Center in Rayville, after a brief illness. She was
a former resident of Covington, LA. and a member of Sharp’s
Chapel Church of God.

She was preceded in death by her husband, the Rev. Roy L. Gay;
a grandson, Kenny Gay; and a granddaughter, Rita K. Hill.

Survivors include her children-Vernon Gay and his wife, Joyce,
of Pensacola, FL., Jeammette Rester and her husband, Kenneth,
of Visalia, CA. and Maxine Hill and her husband Grant of Rayville,
La.; her grandchildren-Keith Gray of Pensacola, Fl., Brian Hill
of Lafayette, LA. ,and Sondra Rester, Sherry Rester, and Angel 
Guiterrez, all of Visalia, CA.; and her great grandchildren- 
Austin Gay, Sean Gregory, C.J. Newport and Katie Guiterrez.