Guin Black

Guindola Marie Witt-Kreidel-Black, was born in Tuscon, Arizona on March 15, 1941. The youngest of three children who lost their father at a young age, and their mother within 20 years, she idolized her brothers, Marvin and Jerry. She grew up in Somerton and Yuma Arizona where she and her brothers all lived for many years marrying and raising their children together. They were a very close family.

Guin married Bill Kreidel at a young age and had four children, David, Pam, Mike and Jeff. After her divorce she met and married Paul Black and they moved to California where she finished raising her children and then, with Paul, moved to Las Vegas, Nevada. She was widowed at a relatively young age and remained in Las Vegas until she moved to Henderson about six or seven years ago.

Guin worked in restaurants and bars for most of her life. She organized fundraisers, games, and parties. She loved to have fun. She worked at Shifty’s on Sahara for many years until she took a chance and started the Las Vegas Electronic Dart League, the first of its kind in Las Vegas. That league is still in existence today although the name has changed to Dart’s 4-U and, since her passing, is being run by her good friend Brad Lewis.

There were three deep romantic loves of her life, her two husbands and last but not least Richard Fenton who has remained a good friend. The pictures of that period of her life appear to be some of the happiest. They shared dreams and enjoyed grandchildren, they took trips and wrote silly notes declaring their love. She cherished what they shared.

It was while living with Richard that Guin began to question her belief in God. I believe it started with pictures that Richard took at Cathedral Rock. Once developed she and Richard saw what appeared to be an angel in some of the pictures. Those pictures hang on her walls to this day.

Guin lived and breathed for her family. Know as ‘GG’ to her 14 grand-children and 33 great-grand-children, Guin was always jolly, and silly, and made a fuss over every child. She praised them and giggled and tickled and was not concerned with how silly she may look doing it. When she threw them kisses it was always a big production that sounded like, “Mmmmmm Pooowwww!” They all love her very much and will always remember her boisterous personality and her loving heart with a smile.

Guin was in weekly, if not daily, contact with her children and grand children throughout the years. She strove to help them find their way in life. She taught them that laughter truly is the best medicine and that life is for living. She taught them to stand up for what they believe in and that forgiveness heals two hearts, not just one. She taught them to never give up. She was extremely proud of their accomplishments and was there to comfort them through their failures. Over the last five years she worked hard to expand her business so that she could leave something that might make life easier for her children. She loved them whole heartedly.

She was a very nurturing person by nature and honest to the core. She once drove all the way across town to give back $10 when a grocery store clerk gave her too much change. Then again, she once went to jail for stealing a loaf of bread to feed her kids.

As a young mother she took in her cousin, Leona, when things were not good at Leona’s home. Leona says that Guin literally saved her life. She doesn’t know where she would have ended up without her. Guin helped anyone that needed it if she could, but she was also a believer in helping, not enabling. When the time was right she would gently, or sternly, whatever the occasion called for, push people to stand on their own.

She was always organizing get-together’s to keep her family in touch. She made trips to visit her brother even though it caused her great physical pain, not to mention the financial stress. She was very grateful that she decided to make one more trip and visited with Jerry just days before he passed away on November 20, 2012.

Her life was not always easy, and not always good. She had heartaches and disappointments in her romances, and with her children, and with her business. But she gave it all she had and she didn’t give up. She had a stubborn streak a mile wide.

She gave until it hurt.

She lived. She laughed. She loved.

She danced.

Guin suffered a severe stroke on April 23rd, and passed away on April 29, 2012. She was surrounded by her family and her passing was peaceful, her send off full of love. She was a very special person. She loved her family and her friends. She will be remembered with love.

Repeatedly over the years Guin instilled in her family that when she passed she did not want us to mourn her passing, she wanted a celebration of her life. That is what she will have.

The celebration will be held at Palm Mortuary at 800 S. Boulder Highway, (next to Smiths) on May 26, 2012 at 3 pm.

Mmmmm Pooowww!

Arrangements under the direction of Palm Boulder Highway Mortuary, Henderson, NV.