Retail executive Morgan Willcox Ayres II, 93, dies
Photo credit: handout | Morgan Willcox Ayres II died at home after a long illness. He was 93.
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Morgan Willcox Ayres II, a former retail executive and father of seven who ran his Sea Cliff home as smoothly as he did the floor of Bergdorf Goodman department store, died at home on Saturday after a long illness. He was 93.
Born in 1919, Ayres liked to tell people that he was "born on the dining room table" of his parents' Upper West Side apartment, said his youngest son, David Ayres, who...
