Ross Alexander Guillet 1910 - 1996

Ross > Linda > Brue > Lillian

Ross Alexander Guillet was born in Linden Heights, Franklin County, Ohio on February 27, 1910 according to many accounts though one version of the birth certificate states 1909.  Ross states the dept of health Certificate to be in error.   There was also a mix-up on the given name discovered during an FBI security check.  One account stating his first name Alexander and the other Ross.  He went by Ross Alexander Guillet his whole life.

His parents were Edward and Louise Guillet.

Boy Scouting was a consuming interest that continued into his twenties. Ross was awarded the Honor of Eagle Scout Nov 12, 1925.  Ross went to Shaw High School in Cleveland, Ohio (graduated 1928?).   He went college at Western Reserve University in Cleveland and The University of Alabama.   It was a boy scout connection made possible a job with Dr. Henry John at his camp for diabetic children: NoMita Koda in Newbury, Ohio (1938). 

While at the camp he met Lauretta Monroe. They were married August 13, 1938.  They had four daughters: Dorothy December 5 1939, Linda (Mar 30, 1941), Jane July 14, 1943 and Sarah Nov, 21 1946.


Ross worked in Chemical and Biological fields at the Cleveland Clinic and Trojan Powder in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.  His final employment from the early forties through the late sixties was at Mound Laboratory (Monsanto).   The Monsanto Company of Miamisburg, Ohio was recruited by General Leslie Groves of the Manhattan Project in 1943 to produce Polonium for the atomic bomb.  Trojan was also a military nuclear endeavor.


In February 1963 while in Miamisburg, his wife died of cancer.

With grand children Brue Hoyt and Sarah Dougher 1969

He later married Louella Acra, who also worked at Monsanto, April 24, 1964.  Lou and Ross both retired from Mound Labs in July 1970 and moved to Lakeview, Arkansas.  The house was situated over the White River (famous for Trout fishing) where he fished daily.  They had large gardens and a small home with a screened in back porch and attached garage.

My most fond memory of my Grandpa Ross was him giving me wheel barrow rides down the dirt road past the sunflower garden by his house near Bull Shoals Arkansas.  He made the best smoked trout - I have never found anything close.  He loved to watch birds.  I remember staring at the humming birds feeding in his back yard.  I always remember him with a pipe in his mouth (a contributing factor in his death to cancer).

He passed September, 18 1996 in Mountain Home, Ark.