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Victoria Ann Gil

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Born: December 23, 1904

Died: January 16, 1960

Married: Peter Gil

Children: Mrs. Victoria R. McClean, Theresa Gill

Victoria Ann Gil cured her tuberculosis in Saranac Lake starting in the late 1940s, and lived here in her last years with her daughter.  She was Phil Gallos' grandmother.


Adirondack Daily Enterprise, January 18, 1960

VICTORIA GIL DIED SATURDAY

Mrs. Victoria Ann Gil, 55, widow of the late Peter Gil, died Saturday morning at the Saranac Lake General Hospital.

She was the daughter of Casmier and Mary Baird Pollack and was born in Poland on Dec. 23, 1904.

Mrs. Gil was well-known in the area, she had been coming to Saranac Lake for her health since 1947, and made her permanent home here for the past two years, with her daughter, Mrs. Victoria R. McClean of 18 Franklin Avenue.

Survivors include her mother; and two daughters, Mrs. McClean and Theresa Gill of East Orange, N.J.: five brothers, John, Stephen and William Pollack of Mastic, L.I.; Joseph of Center Moriches, L.I.; Stanley of Riverhead, L.I.; one sister, Mary Millard, of Center Moriches: and one grandchild, Philip.

The body will repose at the Fortune Funeral Home where there will be a Rosary service tonight at 8 o'clock. Funeral Mass will be held in St. Bernard's Church tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock. Interment will be in Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, East Moriches. L.I., on Thursday.