Individual Details

Mary Louise READ

(22 Apr 1930 - )

Events

Birth	22 Apr 1930	Clear Lake, Cerro Gordo, Iowa, USA
Baptism	22 Jun 1930	Zion Lutheran Church, 112 N. 4th St, Clear Lake, Cerro Gordo, Iowa, USA
Census	1 Apr 1940	504 N. Fifth, Clear Lake, Cerro Gordo, Iowa, USA
Anecdote	May 1950	Ames, Story, Iowa
Engagement	23 Oct 1951	1432 Douglas, Ames, Story, Iowa, USA -
Marriage	15 Jun 1952	Collegiate United Methodist Church, 2622 Lincoln Way, Ames, Story, Iowa, USA - Richard Leland "Dick" MCLAIN
Marriage	15 Jun 1952	Collegiate Methodist Church, Ames, IA - Richard Leland "Dick" MCLAIN
Alt name	15 Jun 1952	Mary Louise MCLAIN
Reference No		111

Families

Spouse	Richard Leland "Dick" MCLAIN (1929 - )
Child	Stephen James MCLAIN (1953 - 2014)
Child	Susan Diane MCLAIN (1954 - )
Child	David Leland MCLAIN (1961 - )

Father	John "Jack" Henry READ (1907 - 1957)
Mother	Viola Johanna VOLKERT JORGENSON (1907 - 1976)
Sibling	Patricia "Patsy" Jean READ (1932 - 2008)
Sibling	Shirley Ann READ (1936 - )

Notes

Baptism

Name: Mary Louise Reed
Event Type: Baptism
Birth Date: 22 Apr 1930
Father: John Reed
Mother: Violo Reed
Church Name: Zion Lutheran Church
Church Location: Clear Lake, Iowa

Census

Name: Mary L Read
Age: 9
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1931
Gender: Female
Race: White
Birthplace: Iowa
Marital Status: Single
Relation to Head of House: Granddaughter
Home in 1940: Clear Lake, Cerro Gordo, Iowa
Map of Home in 1940: View Map
Street: N Fifth
House Number: 504
Inferred Residence in 1935: Clear Lake, Cerro Gordo, Iowa
Residence in 1935: Same House
Sheet Number: 5B
Attended School or College: Yes
Highest Grade Completed: Elementary school, 3rd grade
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members:
Name Age
Annie Jorgensen 73
John Read 33
Viola Read 32
Mary L Read 9
Patsy J Read 7
Shirley A Read 3

Anecdote

COURTSHIP
(As Mary recalls it)

"We met at the Ames Roller Rink, Ames, Iowa on a Friday night in early May 1950. My sister, Pat, and I were sitting together when Dick skated up and asked her to skate. She explained that she was waiting for her boyfriend and then he asked me to skate. We skated together several times and at the end of the evening he asked if he could give me a ride home.
The next week Dick called to ask me to a movie on Sunday evening. We began going out two or three times a week to ball games, movies, picnics, and roller skating. In July he asked me to go steady and gave me his high school class ring to wear.
When we started dating I was living with my parents in Ames and working as a secretary/librarian at Central Junior High School. Dick was spending the summer working at Iowa State University where he was a student. He was living at his fraternity house, Delta Sigma Phi.
That meeting at the roller rink was the beginning of a loving relationship that has lasted all these years."

Engagement

Our Engagement
Written by Mary in her diary.
November 1951

"On Saturday after noon, Oct. 20, 1951, Dick too me downtown Ames to Zales jewelry to make my choice of the rings he had picked out. It wasn't until the evening of Oct. 23 that I actually had Dick's diamond on my left hand, third finger. What a thrill! He picked me up at church where I had gone for a membership class. I received my ring between 9:15 and 9:30 p.m. as we sat parked in his car at my parent's house. And for the record, Dick did actually propose.
The following Monday evening he passed cigars at his fraternity house and on Thursday I passed candy at my sorority. The Delta Sigma Phi fraternity members came to my house to serenade me as was theri custom for newly engaged couples. I thought that was especially nice of them and certainly something that Dick and I will remember the rest of our lives.
So here we are now - finace and fiancee. And it is just wonderful! The next step - husband and wife. That will make my life complete."

Marriage

Wedding Announcement:

Mr. and Mrs. John Henry Read
request the honour of your presence
at the marriage of their daughter
Mary Louise
to
Mr. Richard Leland McLain
on Sunday, the fifteenth of June
nineteen hundred and fifty-one
at three o'clock
Collegiate Methodist Church
Ames, Iowa
R.s.v.p.
Reception following ceremonies
at Church Parlors

Endnotes

1. , U.S., Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, Records, 1875-1940: U.S., Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, Records, 1875-1940, database on-line (www.ancestry.com : accessed 17 Mar 2016), entry for Mary Louise Read, 1932., , .

2. , Census, , , 1940 United States Federal Census, database on-line (www.ancestry.com : accessed 4 Mar 2016), entry for Mary L. Read, Census Place: Clear Lake, Cerro Gordo, Iowa; Roll: T627_1146; Page: 5B; Enumeration District: 17-3..

3. "McLain, Richard & Mary Read, Wedding Scrapbook," (MS, Undated; Urbandale, Iowa, USA), "Courtship: (as Mary recalls it)", from Wedding Scrapbook of Mary Read and Richard McLain. Undated. Compiled and written by Mary Read McLain. Privately held by Mary Read McLain [15128 Clearview Lane], Urbandale, Iowa. Copy privately held by Denise Steward; , ; . Hereinafter cited as "Courtship".

4. "McLain, Richard & Mary Read, Wedding Scrapbook," (MS, Undated; Urbandale, Iowa, USA), "Our Engagement", from Wedding Scrapbook of Mary Read and Richard McLain. Undated. Compiled and transcribed by Mary Read McLain from her diary, Nov. 1951. Privately held by Mary Read McLain [15128 Clearview Lane], Urbandale, Iowa. Copy privately held by D; , ; . Hereinafter cited as "Courtship".

5. , Unknown, Ames, Iowa, c. Jun 1952, Richard L. McLain and Mary L. Read Wedding Announcement. Undated clipping, ca. Jun 1952, from unidentified newspaper. Original privately held by Mary L.(Read) McLain [15128 Clearview Lane] Urbandale, Iowa. As transcribed to daughter-in-law Denise (Steward.

6. Newspaper Article, Montezuma (Iowa) Republican, 03 July 1952.

7. GEDCOM file submitted by Patricia Breniman Rowell, Montezuma, Poweshiek, Iowa. Imported on 26 May 2017..