Today, 22 February 2021, is our great-grandfather Martin Garvey’s 158th birthday. Happy Birthday Great-grandpa Garvey! To find his place on your particular branch of our family tree, start with knowing that Martin was the father of Loretta Garvey Kay, and grandfather of Marjorie Kay Whalen. Great-grandpa Garvey was born in…
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Kendall Whalen and Marjorie Kay’s 75th Wedding Anniversary
Whalen-Kay A lovely winter wedding was solemnized on Saturday, January 5th, when Miss Marjorie Ann Kay, daughter of Mrs. Howard Kay and the late Mr. Howard Kay of Youngstown, N.Y. became the bride of Mr. Kendall C. Whalen of Sackets Harbor, N.Y. The wedding took place before the immediate families…
Mom’s 100th
Today, September 4, 2019, would have been our mother’s 100th birthday. Marjorie Ann Kay Whalen had a short life–she died just weeks before turning 50–but a full one. She was a wife, mother of six, a part-time bookkeeper, and a registered nurse who later taught nursing. It is difficult for…
Happy Anniversary Kendall and Marjorie Kay Whalen
Today is our parents’ 73rd wedding anniversary. Kendall Charles Whalen and Marjorie Ann Kay were married January 5, 1946 in St. Peter’s Catholic Church rectory, Lewiston, New York. They were married in the rectory rather than the church proper because in those days couples entering “mixed marriages,” such as a…