Dale Pickett Gay

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Iva Dale Pickett Gay (June 25, 1891 - 1988) was a Wyoming businesswoman in the oil business. [1]

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Early life and family

Iva Dale Pickett was born in Rockford, Iowa, on June 25, 1891, the daughter of John Robert Pickett/Pigott, Sheriff of Lyman County, South Dakota, and Sarah Climena Smith. [2] She had two sisters and a brother. [3]

Career

Gay was the President of Wyoming Federation of Women's Clubs and was active in American Red Cross work and Child Health Conferences. [2]

She was the treasurer of the Coal and Grass Creek Oil Company. The company controlled 1120 acres in the Wyoming Oil Fields. [4] [5]

Personal life

Gay moved to Wyoming in 1911 and lived in Casper. [2]

In 1915, in Denver, Colorado, she married Guy J. Gay, an insurance salesman. They had 4 daughters: Geraldine, Genevieve, Betty Ann, and Helen Eileen. [2] [3]

She died in 1988.

References

  1. ↑ "Wednesday, May 30, 1917". The Scranton Republican. 1917. Retrieved 20 August 2017.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Binheim, Max; Elvin, Charles A (1928). Women of the West; a series of biographical sketches of living eminent women in the eleven western states of the United States of America. p.  213 . Retrieved 8 August 2017.PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
  3. 1 2 "Montour-Hinman-Wagner-Thornton Famillies" . Retrieved 20 August 2017.
  4. ↑ "Sunday, May 27, 1917". Tombstone Weekly Epitaph. 1917. Retrieved 20 August 2017.
  5. ↑ "Five Wyoming Oil Fields and the Transformation of an Economy" . Retrieved 20 August 2017.
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