Age 83 of Little Silver
The celebration of life will be on Wednesday, August 10th at 4 p.m. at the Rumson Country Club.
Gillian Courtney-Pratt of Little Silver, passed away peacefully at home on July 14, 2016 at the age of 83. She was born to Gladys and Leslie Grundy in London, England. Educated locally but later at Ashford School for Girls in Kent. She went on to Guildford School of Art at which she excelled. She then became a highly competent secretary working amongst others for Adlai Stephenson.
When he was in the U.K., she met Jeofry Courtney-Pratt in Cambridge Where he was a Physics Professor at Gonville and Cavis College. They married in 1957 and shortly after moved to the U.S. When Jeofry joined Bell Labs at Murray Hill, they lived in Springfield, NJ.