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Summersby, Kathleen "Kay", CPT.
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Contact Info
Home Town Ballydehob, County Cork, Ireland
Last Address Southhampton, New York
Date of Passing Jan 20, 1975
Wall/Plot Coordinates Ashes scattered in County Cork, Ireland
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Last Known Activity:
Folk Figure. Born in 1910, in Inish Beg Island, off the coast of County Cork, Ireland, as Kathleen McCarthy-Morrogh, she later came to the United States. She met married and divorced a man by the name of Summersby, and later became engaged to an American colonel who was killed in Tunisia. During World War II she met and became the personal driver and confidential secretary to General Dwight D. Eisenhower, from 1942 to 1945, while he was the Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe during World War II. Eisenhower later considered divorcing his wife Mamie Eisenhower, to marry Summersby, but on the advice of General George C. Marshall, not to, because it would cost him his career, he did not. Summersby later married a man named Morgan and took an American citizenship and lived out the rest of her life in Southampton, New York.
