-died at his Westport CT home on Feb 14
-son of late Mayor William J Gaynor of NY; he was a native of Brooklyn
-attended Amherst College
-employed by New York Evening Sun as a young man
-WWI veteran, serving with the French Ambulance Corp
-suffered from shell shock for a period after the war and recuperated at his home in Smithtown LI
-married his nurse, Miss Margaret Haskell
-survived by his wife, son William J Gaynor III, daughter Mrs Robert Moore, and a brother and five sisters
-burial in Green-Wood Cemetery
~source: New York Sun; Saturday, Feb 15 1941
-died at his Westport CT home on Feb 14
-son of late Mayor William J Gaynor of NY; he was a native of Brooklyn
-attended Amherst College
-employed by New York Evening Sun as a young man
-WWI veteran, serving with the French Ambulance Corp
-suffered from shell shock for a period after the war and recuperated at his home in Smithtown LI
-married his nurse, Miss Margaret Haskell
-survived by his wife, son William J Gaynor III, daughter Mrs Robert Moore, and a brother and five sisters
-burial in Green-Wood Cemetery
~source: New York Sun; Saturday, Feb 15 1941
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