COLES, Mary

Other Events and Attributes:

• Cause of Death: Fell from 12-story building, probably suicide.
• Census: 26 Jun 1900, Oyster Bay, Nassau, NY, USA

Notes:

From NY Times story:

Plunge Kills Mrs. Gunari
Widow of Importer, Ill, Drops 12 Stories to East 87th Street

Mrs. Mary Coles Gunari, widow of Andrew P. Gunari, who was an executive of Ralli Brothers, Ltd., importers, was killed about 10 o'clock yesterday morning when she fell or jumped from a window of her twelfth-floor apartment at 1,060 Park Avenue. She was 65 years old.

Detective Martin Hayes said the fall occurred after a nurse, Alice Conway, had left the room to get a bottle of spirits of ammonia. Mrs. Gunari had been under a physician’s care for a nervous disorder. The body landed on a sidewalk near Eighty-seventh street.

Mrs. Gunari is survived by a daughter from her first marriage, Mrs. Henry Clews Jr., who is in England. Also surviving are two sisters, Mrs. Annie H. Albertson of Amityville, L.I., and Mrs. Sarah A. Draegert of Brooklyn, and a brother, John H. Coles of Little Neck.

Mrs. Gunari’s first husband was Jacob W. Titus of Glen Cove. Her second husband was Isaac J. Van Amburgh. She was married to Mr. Gunari in New Canaan, Conn., on June 9, 1928. He died in 1934.

Mary married VAN AMBURGH, Isaac J about 1887. Isaac was born in Sep 1827 in New Jersey, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: TITUS, Jacob W. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married GUNARI, Andrew P on 9 Jun 1928 in New Canaan, Fairfield, CT USA. Andrew died in 1934. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eleanor married FEARON, Walter P on 28 Jan 1909 in Burlington, Burlington, NJ, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: AINLEY, Henry. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: CLEWS, Henry Jr.. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]