A funeral service for Margaret Gergen Bay, 80, a 27-year Genoa resident, will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at 891 Mahogany Drive in Minden. A viewing will take place one hour prior to the service.
Mrs. Bay died Sept. 2, 2006, in Gardnerville. She was born June 12, 1926, in Whitman, Neb., to William R. Gergen and Celia L. Christman.
She married Jack W. Bay March 25, 1944, and married Andrew Zoppi after Mr. Bay's death.
Before moving to Genoa, Mrs. Bay lived in Carson City, Ely, Hawthorne and Eureka, which she moved to in the 1940s.
She graduated from the poly-technical high school at San Francisco.
She and her husband owned several businesses, including the Hawthorne Business Service and a real estate firm.
She was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the Democratic Party.
She helped found the White Pine County Museum and served on the Juvenile Delinquency Board, as well as being active in the Nevada Heart Association.
She served as a docent at the Genoa Courthouse Museum.
She enjoyed genealogy and Nevada history,
She was preceded in death by husband Jack W. Bay in 1980 in Carson City; brother Bill Gergen; sister Neva Tognoni Bida; and daughter and granddaughter Cynthia and Tamrun Bay.
Among her survivors are her second husband; son and daughter-in-law Steven and Janice Bay; sisters Ann Wright of Saint George, Utah, and Alice Souza of Ely; one granddaughter and numerous nieces and nephews.
Memorial donations may be sent to the Genoa Volunteer Fire Department, PO Box 54, Genoa, NV 89411.
Burial will take place at the Genoa Cemetery, across from Margery Lane, the street named after her by Douglas County Commissioners during the construction of Genoa Estates.
FitzHenry's Carson Valley Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.