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Title supplied by cataloger. McKinley Home for Boys was a community chest (Red Feather) agency and had homes in San Dimas, Van Nuys and Sherman Oaks. The Sherman Oaks home was located at 13840 Riverside Drive.; Marguerite Corey and LeRoy Widener met during bimonthly visits to the McKinley Home where their sons were living. According to the newspaper article "Both parents felt the youngsters, each minus one parent, would be better cared for in the home...The common interest in their children's welfare offered a common ground to the year's courtship that followed." Photograph caption dated September 10, 1959 reads, "Wedding Party At McKinley -- Mr. and Mrs. Roy Widener, married last weekend at McKinley Home for Boys in Sherman Oaks, cut wedding cake with their sons. Boys are, from left, Roy Jr., 11, and Ralph Widener, 13, and Bob Corey, 12. Couple met at McKinley where boys have lived for three years."
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1 photographic print :b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. Photographic prints
McKinley Home for Boys Children--Institutional care--California--Los Angeles Boys--California--Los Angeles Weddings--California--Los Angeles Wedding cakes--California--Los Angeles Families--California--Los Angeles Stepfamilies--California--Los Angeles Sherman Oaks (Los Angeles, Calif.) Valley Times Collection photographs
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