Person:Kathleen Williams (8)

Obituary in the New York Times, Friday, May 27, 1983, page B7.

Kay Gable, 65, Is Dead; Mother of Film Star's Son HOUSTON (UPI) - Kay Gable, widow of the movie star Clark Gable and mother of his only son, died late Wednesday following a lengthy illness. She was 65 years old. Mrs. Gable had been living in California but was recently admitted to Methodist Hospital for treatment of a heart illness. The funeral and burial will be in Los Angeles. She was married to Clark Gable in 1955. It was her fourth marriage and his fifth. Their son, John Clark Gable, 22, was born four months after his father's death on Nov. 11, 1960. Mrs. Gable is also survived by a daughter, Joan, 34, from a previous marriage.

From Find A Grave

Model, Actress. Born on a peach farm in Erie, Pennsylvania. Kathleen left the farm at seventeen to become a fashion model in New York. Rushing into an early marriage, to an engineer named Parker Capps. She was a divorcee at the young age of twenty and had appeared in many magazines, heralded the most beautiful model of the year. Hollywood beckoned and she signed a contract with MGM to join their roster of starlets. In 1941 she married Martin deAlzaga Unzue, a millionaire playboy from Argentina. He filed for an annulment after ten days but later dropped the suit. Kathleen filed for divorce eight months later, citing cruelty. They were finally divorced in 1942. Kathleen met Adolph Spreckels, heir to the Spreckels sugar fortune and married him in 1945. Together they would have two children. By 1953 the marriage had deteriorated. They had a very messy divorce. She married Clark Gable in July of 1955, together they would have a son, Gable however, would not live to see his child. Kathleen was born and raised a Catholic, she decided to rejoin the church and her faith after Clark’s death and had John Clark baptized a Catholic, with many of Clark’s friends attending the christening. Kathleen did not remarry, she was very active in local charities and ensuring her children received the best education. She eventually retired to Houston, Texas, where she had family. She had suffered from angina for several years and went in for triple bypass surgery in 1983 but never regained consciousness and died on May 25 of heart failure. She was 66 years old. (bio by: Shock)

1. ↑ Stainbrook, Margaret Collins, compiler. "The Stainbrook-Steinbrook Family", 1983, pages 132, 133.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3} Tipton, Jim, Compiler, Find a Grave
   Source Information: Ancestry.com. U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012; Original data: Find A Grave. Find A Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cg, Memorial # 8810, Record added 10 March 2000, accessed 19 March 2015.

   Kathleen Gretchen "Kay" Williams Gable; , Memorial # 8810, Record added 10 March 2000

3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} Social Security Death Index (SSDI), Ancestry.com
   Source Information: Ancestry.com. Social Security Death Index [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2011; Original data: Social Security Administration. Social Security Death Index, Master File. Social Security Administration, accessed 1 November 2014.

   Source Citation: Number: 129-09-8719; Issue State: New York; Issue Date: Before 1951.
   
   Name: Kathleen Gable
   SSN: 129-09-8719
   Last Residence:
   90210 Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
   BORN: 7 Aug 1916
   Died: May 1983
   State (Year) SSN issued: New York (Before 1951)

4. ↑ ^4.0 4.1 Texas, Texas Department of Health, State Vital Statistics Unit, Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
   Source Information: Ancestry.com. Texas Death Index, 1903-2000 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006; Original data: Texas Department of Health. Texas Death Indexes, 1903-2000. Austin, TX, USA: Texas Department of Health, State Vital Statistics Unit, accessed 20 March 2015.

   Name: Kathleen Gable
   Death Date: 25 May 1983
   Death County: Harris
   Gender: Female

5. ↑ Family records for birth date of Kay Gable.
6. ↑ Facts on File on the death of Kay Gable in 1983.
7. ↑ Obituary in New York Times 27 May 1983 - Kay Gable.
8. ↑ Forest Lawn Memorial Park records.