Jul 07 2008
Guy Stark Saffold II
Guy Stark Saffold, Jr. was the son of Guy Stark Saffold. Guy grew up in Washington, D.C. with strong interest in following in his father’s footsteps to become a medical doctor and surgeon. The second World War intervened, changing everyone’s plans. Guy’s eyesight was too poor to qualify for other services (even in a darkened room he would instinctively reach for his glasses before speaking), so he enlisted instead in the Merchant Marine. Through the war years he served as an Ensign on a Liberty Ship, convoying supplies and munition across the North Altantic to Europe and into the Arctic port of Murmansk in Russia. After the war Guy returned to New England where he worked first for the Corbin Lock Company and eventually for Pfizer Pharmaceuticals.
Guy Married Elizabeth Minick in _________, and in 1947 Guy Stark Saffold, III was born in New York City. Four years later, in 1951 a second son, Richard Branning Saffold, followed. The family lived for a few years in Metuchen, New Jersey and then in Chatham.
In the 1960s Guy took a job with the Leo Burnett advertising company in Chicago, and the family settled in Long Beach, Indiana, a small lake shore community just east of Michigan City. In 1959 Guy and his wife were divorced. He remarried to Nancy Leigh Derring (Bowes) of Winnetka, Illinois. Around 1968, Guy and Nancy Leigh moved to Freeport on Grand Bahama, Island and eventually to Fort Lauderdale, Florida where he died in 1970 of a heart attack. He was cremated and the ashes were scattered over the ocean off Freeport.
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- As a Boy
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- Playing Tennis at Sherwood Park
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- At Camp
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- Early Teen Years
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- Formal Portrait
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- Guy Saffold
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- University of Alabama
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- U of Alabama
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- With Elizabeth Minick
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- Service Bars
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- Enlistment in the Merchant Marine
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- Merchant Marine Officer
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- Acropolis, Athens, 1944
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- The Sam Houston, 1943
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- Landing Card
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- Le Havre, France
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- Sam Houston at Sea
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- Playing Golf
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- Corbin Lock Company
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- Advertising for Pfizer
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- Advertising Designer
I remember Guy Saffold because his second wife, Nancy Derring, had been a close friend of our family in Northfield, Illinois. She was a particularly handsome and charming woman. She had two sons. Mike, the older one was about my age and we were great pals when they lived in Pebble Fork Lane. The younger one, Tony, was blind because of a medical fault in that era, when premature babies were given too much oxygen. He was a very characterful person too. Guy impressed me as very mild and kind.