March 53 columnist Jimmy Fidler knows: "Singer Lina Romay is preparing to announce her engagement to Jay Gould III, member of the New York banking family. Gould wants Linda to elope, but Miss Romay is holding out for a church wedding..."
c. June 53 she and Gould take out their marriage license in Santa Monica without any of the newspapers catching on. “There was nobody else in the office,” she tells,” and the clerk just handed us the papers. And, of course, I didn’t sign it Lina. I used my real name, Elena Maria.” They want to avoid unnecessary publicity because of reasons personal to Gould.
30 June 53 marries Dr. Jay W. Gould III, descendant of the railroad financier, at the Westwood Lutheran Church in a ceremony attended only by members of their families. He`s 33; she`s 34. Gould`s the son of Jay and Anne Gould and was married twice before, in 1944 to Jennifer Beryl Bruce, daughter of actor Nigel Bruce, and in 1948 to socialite Blair Roemer Stevens. He has a 6-year-old boy from his marriage to Bruce.
13 January 54 her daughter Anne Elena is born early in St. John`s Hospital
8 June 56 her daughter Gloria D. is born in Los Angeles
15 April 61 her son, Jay IV, is born in Los Angeles
18 July 70 she and her husband attend Opera Night at the Hollywood Bowl, with Roger Wagner conducting the Southern California Symphony Orchestra. It`s "a never-to-be-forgotten cultural experience for Jay Gould IV, age 9, who attended with his parents."
30 June 71 as Mrs. Jay Gould, she attends the annual fashion luncheon of the Los Angeles County Federation of Republican Women held at the Century Plaza Hotel
March 73 as Elena Romay Gould, she performs with Nancy Zarro at the Footlighters` benefit show held in Los Angeles
May 87 Gould dies at age 67 in California

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