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Wallace Albert ANDERSON and Dorothea Lorena MELLEN Family

• Male Wallace Albert ANDERSON

  
  

  Birth	30 Aug 1907	Woonsocket, Providence, Rhode Island
  Death	15 Dec 1985	Hyannis, Barnstable, Massachusetts
  Burial		Conestoga Memorial Park, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
  Marriage	9 May 1931  [1, 2]	Lawrence, Essex, Massachusetts  [1, 2]
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  Female Dorothea Lorena MELLEN

  
  

  Birth	28 Oct 1907	Lawrence, Essex, Massachusetts
  Death	23 May 1956	Lancaster, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
  Burial		Conestoga Memorial Park, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
  Father	George Alfred MELLEN | F2183 Group Sheet
  Mother	Maude M. BRACKETT | F2183 Group Sheet

  
  

  Male + David Richmond ANDERSON

  
  

  Birth	4 Dec 1933	Whitestone, Queens, New York, New York
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  Spouse	Mary Patricia RIVENBURG | F2187
  Marriage	26 Aug 1961

  
  

  Female Gail Lorraine ANDERSON

  
  

  Birth	11 Apr 1936	Brooklyn, New York, New York
  Death	15 Sep 1960	Portsmouth, Virginia
  Burial		Conestoga Memorial Park, Lancaster, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
  Spouse	William Jay BARRETT | F2188
  Marriage	21 Jan 1956	Lancaster, Pennsylvania

  
  

  Female Joyce Christine ANDERSON

  
  

  Birth	20 Mar 1938	Brookly, New York City, New York
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• Notes

  Mr. and Mrs. George Alfred Mellen of Lawrence announce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Dorothea Lorena Mellen, to Mr. Wallace A. Anderson of New York, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest A. Anderson of Petersburg, Va. Miss Mellen was graduated from Russel Sage College in 1929 and from the Katherine Gibbs School last June. Her fiancé is a Rensselaer alumnus of the class of 1929 (Source: The Boston Herald, Oct. 15, 1930)

  
  

• Sources

  [S15] Internet. MRS. WALLACE A. ANDERSON The marriage of the former Miss Dorothea Lorena Mellen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George A. Mellen of Lawrence to the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest A. Anderson of Petersburg, Va., was followed by a southern motor trip. They will live in New York. — The Boston Herald, May 17, 1931. [S2] Newspaper. Lawrence Girl to Be Married This Afternonn  Late this afternoon Miss Dorothea Lorena Mellen, daughter or Mr. and Mrs. George Alfred Mellen of Lawrence, will be married to Wallace Albert Anderson of New York city, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest A. Anderson of Petersburg, Va. The ceremony will be performed by Rev. Arthur Thomas Fowler, D. D., pastor of Calvary Church.  Miss Beatrice Amanda Mellen, the bride’s only sister, will be maid of honor. The bridesmaids will be Miss Maxine Catherine Allen of Lawrence; Miss Gladys Irene Anderson, sister of the bridegroom; Miss Margaret Ellen Mahoney of North Andover, and Miss Elizabeth Wiverly of White Plains, N. Y.  Mr. Anderson will have his younger brother, Clifton E. Anderson, as his bestman. The ushers will be David M. Brown of Methuen, Gregory T. Dial, William W. Terry and John B. Saer, all of New York city. Following the ceremony a reception will be held in the assembly room of the church.  The bride was graduated from Russel Sage College in the class of 1929, and from Katherine Gibbs Secretarial School in Boston in the class of 1930. Mr. Anderson graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the class of 1930.  Following a motor trip through Southern States, Mr. Anderson and his bride will live at 15 Jacobus place, New York city. – Boston Evening Transcript May 9, 1931.