Midget Guery
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Name: Midget Guery
Alias: Guy Guery
Birth Name: Frank G. Guerrea
Hometown: Newport, Kentucky, USA
Died: 1992-11-06 (Age:85)
Judge: Record
Pro Boxer: Record
Trainer and Manager: Patsy Haley (early career), Jimmy Shevlin (1927-?)
Guery was the brother of Joe Guery. Guery became a trainer at the Fenwick Club in Cincinnati towards the end of his pro career, by 1941 he was the A.A.U. boxing chairman for Northern Kentucky. In the 1950s Guerrea owned a bar known as the Midge Gurrea Tavern along Fifth Street in Dayton, Kentucky. He served as a board member of the Newport (KY) Housing Authority and was a city commissioner and vice mayor in Newport from 1948 to 1950.
Source: "The Encyclopedia of Northern Kentucky": [1]