Pauline "Polly" Mongold Laye Wingate
December 12, 1919  -  March 1, 2012

Mrs. Pauline "Polly" Laye Wingate died March 1, 2012 in Taylors, South Carolina.  Mrs. Wingate was one of four children born to Henry Milton Laye and Ina Alexander Laye on December 12, 1919 in Seneca, South Carolina.  In 1941 she received her BA degree from Winthrop College.  During her senior year at Winthrop, she was president of the senate and was listed in the 1940-1941 edition of "Who's Who among Students of American Universities and Colleges."  While at Winthrop, she met and married her husband James Austin Wingate, Sr. after graduation. Their only child, James Austin Wingate, Jr. was born in late 1942.  Mrs. Wingate taught elementary school and high school (history at Rock Hill High School; co-sponsor for National Honor Society) in the Rock Hill School District.  Following several years of retirement. she and her husband decided in 2003 to sell their holdings in Rock Hill and move to Taylors, S.C. to be near their son and his wife Phyllis, and their grandsons, Paul and Jim (James Austin Wingate, III), the latter who had recently married Carla Christian.  Both Mrs. Wingate and her husband remained in that part of South Carolina and were fortunate to be alive when their only great-grandchild, Emily, was born in 2004.  Mr. Wingate died in 2006.

5/23/2023 Update from one of her grandsons:
My father was going through some difficult times when my grandmother died. My mother had died not long before, of cancer. My grandmother and my grandfather had been living in an assisted living facility in Greenville for several years, so the Rock Hill connections had been broken. My grandfather passed away before my grandmother. So basically there was no service for her. She was cremated.
Now my father is in an assisted living facility with memory issues, so asking him is pointless. I will see if I can find any sort of obituary or memorial for her. If I find something I will forward it to you. Thank you for your kind words about my grandmother. She was a remarkable woman and I miss her a lot.