A 1951 Wedding Invitation - Family Artifact Challenge (Day 5)

Steven J. Hanley - The Psychogenealogist

May 5, 2020

Family Artifact Challenge

This is the wedding invitation of my wife’s maternal grandparents, Laurence A. Petit Jr. (1925-2007) and Muriel Joy Gregory Petit (1930-2014). Beautifully framed, it hangs proudly in our home. They were married on October 5th, 1951.

Steven J. Hanley - The Psychogenealogist

December 29, 2019

Family History, Photo Colorization

Sweethearts Wed on Soggy Flint Michigan Day (1946)

Steven J. Hanley - The Psychogenealogist

December 29, 2019

Family History, Photo Colorization

Sweethearts Wed on Soggy Flint Michigan Day (1946)

It was a cool and wet Saturday afternoon at the corner of 5th Avenue and Saginaw Street in Flint, Michigan. On Saturday, May 4th, 1946, high school sweethearts, Betty Grace Sears (1924-1981) and Michael John Hanley Jr. (1924-2015), were married at St. Michael Catholic Church.