Killingworth, Connecticut
Gay St. John
1936 — 2023
Gay Jean St. John was born Gay Jean Dilworth to Agnes Perring and Harold Dilworth on November 3, 1936, in Wheeling, West Virginia. She was a straight-shooter and did not tolerate fools. She was a devout Catholic, honest and compassionate. She had two brothers, Harold Dilworth Jr and Robert Dilworth that precede her in death. Raised by her grandmother (Mary Miller) and mother's sister (Mildred Perring Wurtzbacher), after the death of her parents at a young age, she attended Catholic high school in Wheeling and then nurses' training at St. Francis in Columbus Ohio, graduating in 1958. She met an Air Force man, Dominic Anthony St. John (Sangiovanni) of New Haven, Connecticut, stationed near...