1945

Notes on the Wedding Story


The Sullivans were friends of Nora and Arthur when they were living in Dubuque and they kept in touch over the years.  Nora and I went out to LA on a train in 1944 to see Dave when he was transferred to Southern Cal, and we stayed at Sullivan's.  Dave came back and forth to visit and I went over to the University to meet him and also met Lynn (Hubie as Dave used to call him), who was Dave's roommate along with two other guys.

Fern Sullivan (daughter-in-law of the Sullivans) lived with them while their son was in the military and she was our matron of honor.  Lynn, Dave's roommate at USC was best man.  The Sullivans and Lynn's red-haired date were our three guests.  No one was Catholic but Dave and I and Father Gallagher.  Lynn was an atheist and nobody asked.  Rules were lifted during wartime.

Dave was not on leave, he got a pass into town to meet my train (Thursday) and had to be back on base that night.  He had to stand all night watch on Friday night and catch a bus in Saturday morning so we could catch a bus downtown before the courthouse closed at noon.  We had 20 minutes left when we got there so we got in line and got to the clerk before twelve and when she asked for our ID I realized that it was on the dresser at Sullivans/I forgot it in our hurry. 

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