Wells Family - Person Sheet
Wells Family - Person Sheet
NameMildred Furtado 
Birth5 Nov 1897, Brestle Ferry, RI
Census1 Jan 1920, Oakland, Alameda Co, CA
Memoroll#90, pg 13
Census18 Apr 1930, Berkeley, Alameda Co, CA
MemoED#272, pg 23
Census12 Apr 1950, Reno, Washoe Co, NV
Memoroll#2301, pg 73
Death11 Oct 1952, Reno, Washoe Co, NV
Burial15 Oct 1952, Mountain View Cem, Reno, Washoe Co, NV
MemoA-81-4
Misc. Notes
Daughter of John Furtado (Portugal) and Mary Maderas (Massachusetts).
She married John Charles Piver on 9 Jun 1916 in Berkeley, Alameda Co, CA.
In 1920, she is listed in Oakland CA as Mildred Piver (22, RI) wife of John Piver (24, CA) with children Louis (2) and Marian (1). She is listed with her Piver family of a son and two daughters in Berkeley in 1930, first married at age 15. But is erroneously listed as age 28 and born in Calif.
They must have divorced as he was remarried on 16 May 1931 to Edna May Taylor.
John Piver is listed in the 1940 census with his 3 children from the first marriage and widowed.
Strangely, she is listed as Mildred Gill on her marriage record to Joseph Gill on 26 Nov 1945 in Carson City, NV, just a year before his death in 1946.
The 9 Feb 1949 copy of the Reno Gazette-Journal (pg 5) reported:
ENGAGED - Mrs. Mildred Gill To Become Bride Of Richard Canonic
Mrs. Mildred Gill of Reno, whose engagement to Richard Virgil Canonic of Verdi was announced at a family dinner party given Jan. 30 at the home of Mr. and Mrs. James Canonic at Washoe power plant. A spring wedding is planned by the couple. Mrs Gill was for some time manager of the Crystal candy store here, and Mr. Canonic is In the lumber business in Verdi. Attending the announcement dinner were the honored couple, Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Mayer, Mr. and Mrs. George Knauth, and the host and hostess.
They were married early in 1950 and are listed as married in the 1950 Reno census. They must have divorced soon after as she married Julian Pagay in 1952, and Richard Canonic didn’t die until 1959.
Widow of Joseph Gill (1890-1946) and also listed as Midred Gill Canonic when she married Julian Pagay.
[Obituary] Reno Gazette-Journal - 13 Oct 1952 - Page 11
Reno Resident 20 Years Dies
Mra. Mildred Pagay, a resident of this community for more thart 20 years died at a local hospital Saturday, following a short illness. Mrs. Pagay was formerly Mrs Mildred Gill, whose husband Joe Gill owned the Crystal fountain on Virginia street. Mr. Gill died several years ago.
Mrs. Pagay, a native of Rhode Island, was born Nov. 5, 1902. She is survived by her husband, Julian Pagay of Reno; two daughters, Mrs. Dorothy Canepa of Reno and Mrs. Marian Sciarroni of Richmond, Calif., a son: Louis John Pever of San Francisco.
She was the sister of Joseph Furatdo of Berkeley: Tony Furatado, Oakland; Mrs. May Reese of Oakland, Calif., Mrs. Evelyn Vantbump of Los Angeles.
Friends are invited to attend funeral services on Wednesday afternoon at 3 o’clock at the home chapel of Ross-Burke Co., with the Rev. John T. Ledger of Trinity Episcopal church as clergyman. Burial will be in Mountain View cemetery.
[Obituary] Reno Gazette-Journal - Monday, 13 October 1952, pg 16
PAGAY
In Reno. Oct. 11, 1952, Mrs. Mildred Pagay, wife of Juliun Pagay of Reno; mother of Mrs. Dorothy H. Canepa of Reno, Mrs. Marian Sciarronl of Richmond, Louis John Pever of San Francisco; sister of Joseph Furatdo of Berkeley, Mrs. May Reese of Oakland, Mrs. Evelyn Vantbump of Los Angeles, Tony Furatdo of Oakland. A native of Rhode Island. Friends are invited to attend funeral services on Wednesday at 3 p. m. at the home chapel of Ross-Burke company with the Rev. John T. Ledger of Trinity Episcopal church clerevman. Burial in Mountain View cemetery.
After her death a Card Of Thanks was posted in the 19 Oct 1952 Nevada State Journal - We wish to thank all of our kind friends and neighbors for their many kind expressions of sympathy and condolence during our recent bereavement at the death of Mildred Gill Pagay.
She married John Charles Piver on 9 Jun 1916 in Berkeley, Alameda Co, CA.
In 1920, she is listed in Oakland CA as Mildred Piver (22, RI) wife of John Piver (24, CA) with children Louis (2) and Marian (1). She is listed with her Piver family of a son and two daughters in Berkeley in 1930, first married at age 15. But is erroneously listed as age 28 and born in Calif.
They must have divorced as he was remarried on 16 May 1931 to Edna May Taylor.
John Piver is listed in the 1940 census with his 3 children from the first marriage and widowed.
Strangely, she is listed as Mildred Gill on her marriage record to Joseph Gill on 26 Nov 1945 in Carson City, NV, just a year before his death in 1946.
The 9 Feb 1949 copy of the Reno Gazette-Journal (pg 5) reported:
ENGAGED - Mrs. Mildred Gill To Become Bride Of Richard Canonic
Mrs. Mildred Gill of Reno, whose engagement to Richard Virgil Canonic of Verdi was announced at a family dinner party given Jan. 30 at the home of Mr. and Mrs. James Canonic at Washoe power plant. A spring wedding is planned by the couple. Mrs Gill was for some time manager of the Crystal candy store here, and Mr. Canonic is In the lumber business in Verdi. Attending the announcement dinner were the honored couple, Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Mayer, Mr. and Mrs. George Knauth, and the host and hostess.
They were married early in 1950 and are listed as married in the 1950 Reno census. They must have divorced soon after as she married Julian Pagay in 1952, and Richard Canonic didn’t die until 1959.
Widow of Joseph Gill (1890-1946) and also listed as Midred Gill Canonic when she married Julian Pagay.
[Obituary] Reno Gazette-Journal - 13 Oct 1952 - Page 11
Reno Resident 20 Years Dies
Mra. Mildred Pagay, a resident of this community for more thart 20 years died at a local hospital Saturday, following a short illness. Mrs. Pagay was formerly Mrs Mildred Gill, whose husband Joe Gill owned the Crystal fountain on Virginia street. Mr. Gill died several years ago.
Mrs. Pagay, a native of Rhode Island, was born Nov. 5, 1902. She is survived by her husband, Julian Pagay of Reno; two daughters, Mrs. Dorothy Canepa of Reno and Mrs. Marian Sciarroni of Richmond, Calif., a son: Louis John Pever of San Francisco.
She was the sister of Joseph Furatdo of Berkeley: Tony Furatado, Oakland; Mrs. May Reese of Oakland, Calif., Mrs. Evelyn Vantbump of Los Angeles.
Friends are invited to attend funeral services on Wednesday afternoon at 3 o’clock at the home chapel of Ross-Burke Co., with the Rev. John T. Ledger of Trinity Episcopal church as clergyman. Burial will be in Mountain View cemetery.
[Obituary] Reno Gazette-Journal - Monday, 13 October 1952, pg 16
PAGAY
In Reno. Oct. 11, 1952, Mrs. Mildred Pagay, wife of Juliun Pagay of Reno; mother of Mrs. Dorothy H. Canepa of Reno, Mrs. Marian Sciarronl of Richmond, Louis John Pever of San Francisco; sister of Joseph Furatdo of Berkeley, Mrs. May Reese of Oakland, Mrs. Evelyn Vantbump of Los Angeles, Tony Furatdo of Oakland. A native of Rhode Island. Friends are invited to attend funeral services on Wednesday at 3 p. m. at the home chapel of Ross-Burke company with the Rev. John T. Ledger of Trinity Episcopal church clerevman. Burial in Mountain View cemetery.
After her death a Card Of Thanks was posted in the 19 Oct 1952 Nevada State Journal - We wish to thank all of our kind friends and neighbors for their many kind expressions of sympathy and condolence during our recent bereavement at the death of Mildred Gill Pagay.
Spouses
Birth28 Apr 1895, Gorocica, Vizcaya, Spain
Death27 Oct 1990, Reno, Washoe Co, NV
MemoWashoe Care Center
Burial30 Oct 1990, Our Mother Of Sorrows Cem, Reno, Washoe Co, NV
MemoSt. Luke section, E 14
Occupationtruck driver
ReligionCatholic
FatherPedro Jose Aguirre (1846-)
MotherMaria Jesus Pagay (1852-)
Misc. Notes
Spanish Basque, born in the Pyranees. Listed initally as Julian Aguirre and later as Julian Pagay.
Immigrated from Le Harve to New York on the ship France arriving 21 Feb 1913. It lists him as Julian Aguirre, a farm laborer age 17, coming from Guernica, Spain, where his father Pedro Aguirre lived. It says his destination is Golconda, Nevada, and his brother Leon Aguirre.
Julian served in the U.S. Army between 2 Oct 1917 and 24 Jan 1918 during WWI.
He is listed as Julian Aguirre in the 1920 census for Golconda, NV where he is working as a ranch cook (34, Spain) who immigrated in 1912 and living as a boarder with the Bain family. He is then listed as Julian A. Pagay on Sierra St in the 1923 Reno City Directory, working as a clerk for his brother-in-law, Joseph Beloso.
The 1930 census for Lovelock, NV lists him as Julian Pagay, a laborer in a lumber yard (47, Spain) first married at age 36, and an alien who immigrated in 1913. His wife Rebecca (47, CA) was not working and was first married at age 18, prior to Julian.
He is listed in Silver City, NM in 1940 at age 44, with wife Rebecca (61, CA). It says he had lived in Lovelock, NV in 1935 and was naturalized. Shortly after the census, they apparently went to Mexico, and returned on April 24th 1940 at Laredo, TX where he was stopped but allowed to enter as his wife was a US citizen.
Julian and Rebecca apparently separated as he remained in Lovelock, and she took a trip by herself to Hawaii in 1946 and was then living in St. Helena, CA. where she died in September 1948. Julian then took a trip to Spain as he is listed as departing New York on Aug 16th and returning from LeHavre on Nov 14th of 1949.
In the 1950 census, Julian is listed in Lovelock, widowed (54, Spain) and a lodger working as a janitor.
He next moved to Reno and was a truck driver, WWI veteran and Catholic.
He married Mildred Futada (1901, Rhode Island) widow of Joseph Gill, on 14 Jun 1952 in Carson City, NV. She died later that year and is buried in Mt View cemetery in Reno.
Julian lastly married Sadie Sopira Blank on the 4th of July in Carson City, and they lived together until her death in 1986.
[Obituary] Reno Gazette-Journal - Monday, 29 October 1990, pg 12
Julian A. Pagay Visitation for Julian Aguirre Pagay, 95, who died Saturday at Washoe Care Center, is scheduled from 3 to 9 p.m. today at Walton Funeral Home, Reno. A native of Gorocica, Spain, he was born April 28, 1895, and had been a Reno resident since 1949, coming from Lovelock. Pagay was a truck driver, a World War II Army veteran and a member of the Catholic Church. Surviving are a stepson, Harold Carter of San Mateo, three step-grandchildren; three step-great-grandchildren; six nieces; one nephew; and numerous grandnephews. A funeral is scheduled for 2 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home, with burial at Our Mother of Sorrows Cemetery. A memorial is being established with War Veterans Memorial Association of Northern Nevada, 18 East Sparks 89431
He is buried in Our Mother of Sorrows Cemetery in Reno, as are his brother Manuel Pagay Aguirre, and sister Josefa Aguirre Beloso.
Immigrated from Le Harve to New York on the ship France arriving 21 Feb 1913. It lists him as Julian Aguirre, a farm laborer age 17, coming from Guernica, Spain, where his father Pedro Aguirre lived. It says his destination is Golconda, Nevada, and his brother Leon Aguirre.
Julian served in the U.S. Army between 2 Oct 1917 and 24 Jan 1918 during WWI.
He is listed as Julian Aguirre in the 1920 census for Golconda, NV where he is working as a ranch cook (34, Spain) who immigrated in 1912 and living as a boarder with the Bain family. He is then listed as Julian A. Pagay on Sierra St in the 1923 Reno City Directory, working as a clerk for his brother-in-law, Joseph Beloso.
The 1930 census for Lovelock, NV lists him as Julian Pagay, a laborer in a lumber yard (47, Spain) first married at age 36, and an alien who immigrated in 1913. His wife Rebecca (47, CA) was not working and was first married at age 18, prior to Julian.
He is listed in Silver City, NM in 1940 at age 44, with wife Rebecca (61, CA). It says he had lived in Lovelock, NV in 1935 and was naturalized. Shortly after the census, they apparently went to Mexico, and returned on April 24th 1940 at Laredo, TX where he was stopped but allowed to enter as his wife was a US citizen.
Julian and Rebecca apparently separated as he remained in Lovelock, and she took a trip by herself to Hawaii in 1946 and was then living in St. Helena, CA. where she died in September 1948. Julian then took a trip to Spain as he is listed as departing New York on Aug 16th and returning from LeHavre on Nov 14th of 1949.
In the 1950 census, Julian is listed in Lovelock, widowed (54, Spain) and a lodger working as a janitor.
He next moved to Reno and was a truck driver, WWI veteran and Catholic.
He married Mildred Futada (1901, Rhode Island) widow of Joseph Gill, on 14 Jun 1952 in Carson City, NV. She died later that year and is buried in Mt View cemetery in Reno.
Julian lastly married Sadie Sopira Blank on the 4th of July in Carson City, and they lived together until her death in 1986.
[Obituary] Reno Gazette-Journal - Monday, 29 October 1990, pg 12
Julian A. Pagay Visitation for Julian Aguirre Pagay, 95, who died Saturday at Washoe Care Center, is scheduled from 3 to 9 p.m. today at Walton Funeral Home, Reno. A native of Gorocica, Spain, he was born April 28, 1895, and had been a Reno resident since 1949, coming from Lovelock. Pagay was a truck driver, a World War II Army veteran and a member of the Catholic Church. Surviving are a stepson, Harold Carter of San Mateo, three step-grandchildren; three step-great-grandchildren; six nieces; one nephew; and numerous grandnephews. A funeral is scheduled for 2 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home, with burial at Our Mother of Sorrows Cemetery. A memorial is being established with War Veterans Memorial Association of Northern Nevada, 18 East Sparks 89431
He is buried in Our Mother of Sorrows Cemetery in Reno, as are his brother Manuel Pagay Aguirre, and sister Josefa Aguirre Beloso.
Marriage14 Jun 1952, Carson City, NV