Payne County OK Obit for: Jerry H. Gay ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== Submitted to the archives by:Bill Cook, billcook44@aol.com Date submitted: 9/29/2002 Transcribed from the: Stillwater News Press Thanks to http://www.stwnewspress.com/ for permission to upload their obits to the USGenWeb Archives. Copyright, http://www.stwnewspress.com/ http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/payne/payneobits.html *********************************************************************** Sept. 24, 2002 Jerry Gay Jerry Howard Gay, 63, Ponca City, died Saturday, Sept. 21, 2002, in Oklahoma City. Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday in Strode Chapel with Tom Short officiating. Burial will follow in Sunset Memorial Gardens under the direction of Strode Funeral Home. Gay was born Sept. 28, 1938, in Bristow to Eual Howard and LaDoris Evelyn (Picquette) Gay. He graduated from Stillwater High School then went into law enforcement and served 22 years as a police officer in Ponca City, where he retired as lieutenant detective. On April 22, 1988, he married Gail Payne in Austin, Texas. They resided in Stillwater for 10 years before moving to Ponca City. Gay loved to trap shoot, quail hunt and have cookouts with family and friends. He was a member of First Baptist Church, Masonic Lodge and FOP and was a 32nd Degree Mason. He was predeceased by his father and one son, Jeffrey Howard Gay. Survivors include his wife; his mother; one son and daughter-in-law, Tim and Linda Gay of Oklahoma City; one daughter and son-in-law, Shelly and Anthony Williams of Ponca City; one stepson and stepdaughter-in-law, Bobby and Nicole Payne of Ponca City; one stepdaughter and stepson-in-law, Angela and James Barnes of Ponca City; eight grandchildren, Christopher Gay, Brandi Gay, Ashley Payne, Tyler Barnes, Matthew Williams, Zachary Barnes, Kyce Payne and Logan Barnes; one brother and sister-in-law, Thomas Michael and Marilyn Gay of Stillwater; and one sister and brother-in-law, Linnie Suezette and Charles Branton of Austin, Texas.