Summary
Roland J. and Ethel McCann’s 50th wedding anniversary was celebrated with a Mass at St. John Vianney Church and an open house at their daughter Grace Lemire’s home in Wyoming on December 1, 1973. The notice identifies the couple as formerly of Beaver Island and reports that their son, Rev. Roland Jerome McCann, O.P., officiated at the Mass.
Evidence and limits
The event is an anniversary notice, not a guest register, parish record, or complete family history. Its December 1923 marriage date is modeled separately as a retrospective source claim.
See also
- Marriage of Roland J. McCann and Ethel Mielke (1923)
- Roland McCann (1940 Armistice Day storm account)
- Ethel Mielke McCann (1974 anniversary notice)
- Beaver Island
Sources
- Beaver Beacon, January 1974, “Golden Wedding Anniversary — Mr. and Mrs. Roland J. McCann.”Reports a Mass at St. John Vianney Church and an open house at the Lemire home in Wyoming on Saturday, December 1, 1973, celebrating Roland and Ethel McCann’s 50th anniversary; it names their four children and visiting relatives but does not provide attendance or civil records.