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…
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Aunt Gladys and Aunt Ella
We’ve had 2 more birthday anniversaries recently. Our Dad’s sisters, Gladys Whalen Stoddard and Ella Whalen Hyde, were each born in this month. Aunt Gladys on March 24, 1893 and Aunt Ella on March 30, 1896. These girls were 19 and 16 when my dad was born; by the time I…