Vergara), George Jerome (m. Carol Abrams) and Louise Elizabeth (Lana) (m.Carl
Muly). George died in Charlotte in 1967; Ruth died in 1985.
Dorothy Marguerite Wallace, born August 6, 1910, graduated from Saints
Peter and Paul’s and Ursuline Academy. After that, she mainly helped her mother run
the house. She married Carl “Pete" Dicken in 1944 and they had one daughter,
Kathryn Ann (Mrs. Frank) Russo, with whom she made her home following Pete’s
death in 1966. Dorothy died February 17,1998.
Madelyn Hildagarde Wallace, born September 17, 1913, was also an Ursuline
graduate. She was employed by Rosenbaum’s Department Store in Cumberland for
several years. During World War II she worked for Greyhound transportation in
Cumberland. After the war she
went to Washington where she
was with the Pennsylvania
Railroad. She married Harry F.
Rizer, of Cumberland, in 1948 in
Washington. They resided in
Cumberland where their
children Mary Ann (m. Michael
Dunevant) and Harry Jr.(“Bud")
(m. Anne Williams) were born.
She was a salesperson at
W
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i
t
a c
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e
’s Gift Shop in
Cumberland, and was later
employed as a nurse’s aide at
Sacred Heart Hospital. Madelyn
was a member of Saints Peter
and Paul’s choir for many years.
Harry died in 1981. Madelyn
died Dcember 6, 2005.
Regina Barbara Wallace was
born February 27, 1915. After
graduating from Ursuline, she
became a registered nurse upon
completing training at the
Allegany Hospital School of
Nursing in Cumberland. During
World War II she was
commissioned in the Army Nurse Corps and served in the Caribbean area. She
married Major (later Colonel) Emory Cofield, U.S. Air Force, in 1943. They had a
daughter, Barbara Ann (m. Robert Wood). Regina and her husband were divorced
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The Wallace sisters, CWR’s aunts, ca. 1930: Regina, Madelyn,
Dorothy, Margaret, Kathryn, Marie
