APRIL 5, 1911-
APRIL 12, 2009
Frances Guy Seay, 98, passed away on Easter Sunday, April, 12, 2009 at Azalea Trace in Pensacola. Mrs. Seay was born in Laurel, MS on April 5, 1911, the eldest child of Francis Wrigdon Guy and Lela Ophelia Ryals Guy, and grew up in Lumberton, MS. After graduating high school, she studied music at Whitworth College, Brookhaven, MS, a Methodist junior college in the Millsaps system, and graduated at age twenty from Ole Miss, where she was a member of Kappa Delta Sorority. She later attended graduate school at the University of Southern Mississippi. While working in Hattiesburg Mississippi, she met and married Lt. Pressley McLeod Seay, Jr. on July 14, 1936. They were stationed in various places around the country while he was in the Army before and during WWII and settled in Hattiesburg after the war to rear their three children. After their move to Pensacola Beach in 1960, Mrs. Seay taught in Escambia County first at Sherwood Elementary, P. K. Yonge, and Bellview Elementary until her retirement in 1977. She was a long time member of Gulf Breeze United Methodist Church until moving to Azalea Trace in 1984 and thereafter becoming a charter member of St. Luke's United Methodist Church, Pensacola.
She is survived by her sisters, Kathryn Guy Hoyer of Orlando and Mary Agnes Long of Gulfport, MS; her daughters, Frances Lenore Seay of Aurora, CO, Kathryn (Mrs. John H. McCleskey), of Savannah, GA, and Sally Sue Smith, (Mrs. J. D. Smith) of Pensacola; five grandchildren: Guy Patrick McGraw, Kelly Kathryn (Mrs. John R. Williams), and Andrew Reynolds McGraw, of Pensacola, John H. McCleskey, Jr. and Leah Kay (Mrs. Edward Scott), of Atlanta; and eleven great-grandchildren including her namesake, Frances Raby Williams.
The family will receive friends before the memorial service, which will be held at the chapel of Gulf Breeze United Methodist Church at 10:00 A.M. on Friday, April 17th, Dr. W. Herbert Sadler, officiating. Graveside services will be at 2:00 P.M. at the Oaklawn Cemetery in Hattiesburg, on Thursday, April 16, the Rev. Shane Stanford officiating.
Published in the Pensacola News Journal and Hattiesburg American on 4/16/2009.
APRIL 5, 1911-
APRIL 12, 2009
Frances Guy Seay, 98, passed away on Easter Sunday, April, 12, 2009 at Azalea Trace in Pensacola. Mrs. Seay was born in Laurel, MS on April 5, 1911, the eldest child of Francis Wrigdon Guy and Lela Ophelia Ryals Guy, and grew up in Lumberton, MS. After graduating high school, she studied music at Whitworth College, Brookhaven, MS, a Methodist junior college in the Millsaps system, and graduated at age twenty from Ole Miss, where she was a member of Kappa Delta Sorority. She later attended graduate school at the University of Southern Mississippi. While working in Hattiesburg Mississippi, she met and married Lt. Pressley McLeod Seay, Jr. on July 14, 1936. They were stationed in various places around the country while he was in the Army before and during WWII and settled in Hattiesburg after the war to rear their three children. After their move to Pensacola Beach in 1960, Mrs. Seay taught in Escambia County first at Sherwood Elementary, P. K. Yonge, and Bellview Elementary until her retirement in 1977. She was a long time member of Gulf Breeze United Methodist Church until moving to Azalea Trace in 1984 and thereafter becoming a charter member of St. Luke's United Methodist Church, Pensacola.
She is survived by her sisters, Kathryn Guy Hoyer of Orlando and Mary Agnes Long of Gulfport, MS; her daughters, Frances Lenore Seay of Aurora, CO, Kathryn (Mrs. John H. McCleskey), of Savannah, GA, and Sally Sue Smith, (Mrs. J. D. Smith) of Pensacola; five grandchildren: Guy Patrick McGraw, Kelly Kathryn (Mrs. John R. Williams), and Andrew Reynolds McGraw, of Pensacola, John H. McCleskey, Jr. and Leah Kay (Mrs. Edward Scott), of Atlanta; and eleven great-grandchildren including her namesake, Frances Raby Williams.
The family will receive friends before the memorial service, which will be held at the chapel of Gulf Breeze United Methodist Church at 10:00 A.M. on Friday, April 17th, Dr. W. Herbert Sadler, officiating. Graveside services will be at 2:00 P.M. at the Oaklawn Cemetery in Hattiesburg, on Thursday, April 16, the Rev. Shane Stanford officiating.
Published in the Pensacola News Journal and Hattiesburg American on 4/16/2009.
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