Laura “Sis” McGuire Guerrant, 100

Laura “Sis” McGuire Guerrant, having reached the age of 100, peacefully passed on to her heavenly reward on Oct. 29, 2026. Born on May 13, 1926, she followed her now-deceased twin brother Everett “Brud” Hale McGuire, Jr. into this world in Hazard, KY. Daughter to the late Everett Hale McGuire and Eula Mae Hammons, she is predeceased by her beloved husband, Richard Putney Guerrant, Jr., her second brother, James McGuire, and a daughter, Nancy Guerrant. Sis’s childhood in Hazard included school with Cheerleading, Glee Club, and dances, supported by a doting father, a remarkable mother, and two exceptional brothers who helped to shape her into the incredible woman she was to become. As a graduate and former Carnival Queen of Centre College, she married Richard, her college sweetheart, on August 19, 1950. They began their new life together in Danville, where she worked as a Medical Technologist at Ephraim McDowell Hospital and he as a chemist for Corning Glassware.

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