Alden Lothrop McMurtry

Alden Lothrop McMurtry

• Alden Lothrop McMurtry was born on 31 October 1909 in New York.
• He married Edith Simpson Dunn, daughter of Thomas Warren Dunn and Marie V. Watkins, on 28 June 1940 in Manhattan, New York.
• The following appeared on 28 June 1940 in The New York Sun: Miss Edith Simpson Dun of 129 West Seventy-eighth street, daughter of Mrs. James S. Vail of Plainfield, N. J., is being married to Alden Lothrop McMurtry of this city, son of Mrs. Alden L. McMurtry of Rye, N. Y., this afternoon in the Episcopal Church of the Epiphany. The Rev. John W. Suter Jr. is performing the ceremony and a reception will follow at the Plaza.
       Miss Constance Vail of Maplewood, N. J., step-sister of the bride, is maid of honor and other attendants are Mrs. Granville S. Carrel, Miss Lillian McMurtry, a sister of the bridegroom; Miss Nancy Kenyon of Pawtucket, R. I., and Miss Elizabeth Clute. 1674728 John Sloan is the best man and the ushers are Granville S. Carrel, Watkins Dunn and Lamont and Stewart Bryan Jr. of Richmond, Va.
       The bride, a granddaughter of the late Major James H. Dunn of Albany, N. Y., attended the Hillside School in Norwalk, Conn. Mr. McMurtry, who is a nephew of Major George C. McMurtry of Camden, S. C., attended the Pomfred School in Connecticut and the University of Virginia.
       After their wedding trip the couple will live at 400 East Fifty-seventh street.
• Alden Lothrop McMurtry became a widower at the September 1994 death of his wife Edith Simpson Dunn.
• The SSDI lists Oxnard, Ventura County, California, as the last residence of record of Alden Lothrop McMurtry.
• Alden Lothrop McMurtry died on 1 April 2004 at age 94.

• Last Edited: 13 Apr 2014