Editing Kay Summersby (section)

==Life after the war==

Summersby was awarded the [[British Empire Medal]] (BEM) in the [[1945 New Year Honours]] List.<ref name="gazette">{{London Gazette |issue=36869 |date=29 December 1944 |page=137 |supp=y |nolink=y}}</ref> The award, at the insistence of British Prime Minister [[Winston Churchill]], was presented, with a signed photograph of the Prime Minister, aboard the [[MV Britannic (1929)|MV ''Britannic'']] in New York more than three years later.<ref name="amazon1">{{cite book |author=Wood |first=Kieron |url=https://www.amazon.com/Ikes-Irish-Lover-Echo-Sigh-ebook/dp/B01740C5CY |title=Ike's Irish Lover, The Echo of a Sigh |access-date=2016-10-05}}</ref>

After leaving the service in 1947, Summersby settled in the United States, and was, at one point, engaged to a man in San Francisco who thought she had money.<ref name="mulligan19950528"/> She married the [[Wall Street]] stockbroker Reginald H. Morgan in 1952,<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090316012813/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,817499,00.html Announcement of marriage], ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'', Monday, 1 December 1952</ref> but was divorced in 1958.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1975/01/21/archives/kay-summersby-morgan-dies-eisenhower-confidante-in-war.html Obituary], ''[[The New York Times]]'',21 January 1975</ref><ref name="mulligan19950528" /> She died at her home in [[Southampton (town), New York|Southampton, Long Island]], of cancer, on 20 January 1975,<ref name="death">{{cite magazine | url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,946467,00.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070428180603/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,946467,00.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=28 April 2007 | title=Milestones, Feb. 3, 1975 | magazine=Time | date=3 February 1975 | access-date=19 May 2016 | quote=Died. Kay Summersby Morgan, 66, General Dwight Eisenhower's secretary, chauffeur and confidante during World War II; of cancer; in Southampton, N.Y.}}</ref> at the age of 66.