RETRACING EVERLASTING LOVE.Byline: - Mary Vose Warren and Katherine Kreis of Granada Hills celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary from April 22 through May 7, 2000, by retracing their honeymoon. The two met through Katherine's brother, an instructor at the Masonic Lodge that Warren had recently joined. After a two-year courtship courtship paying attention to a member of the opposite sex with a view to mating; occurs in farm animals but is not highly developed other than estral display by the female and seeking by the male, activities that are rather more pragmatic than implied in the definition. , the couple were married on April 22, 1950, at Christ Community Church in Lindenwold, N.J. On their honeymoon, they stayed overnight at the Hotel du Pont Du Pont (d  pŏnt), family notable in U.S. industrial history. The Du Pont family's importance began when Eleuthère Irénée Du Pont established a gunpowder mill on the in Wilmington, Del. where they paid $8 a night for their room. Then they made their way through the Blue Ridge Mountains Blue Ridge also Blue Ridge MountainsA range of the Appalachian Mountains extending from southern Pennsylvania to northern Georgia. It rises to 2,038.6 m (6,684 ft) at Mount Mitchell in the Black Mountains of western North Carolina. . They called the Hotel du Pont to reserve a room 50 years later and were told that the rate was $309 a night. When Katherine asked the hotel clerk if there was anything the hotel could do for them since they were celebrating their 50th anniversary, she was told that the hotel would accommodate their request if they could produce proof that they spent their honeymoon there and they could have a room for the same price they paid on their honeymoon. That was not a problem for the Kreises - they had kept the original hotel receipt among their honeymoon mementos. With it in hand, they checked into their 10th-floor room for $8. Inside they found a bottle of champagne and a fruit basket, courtesy of the hotel. The next day they retraced their trip through the Blue Ridge Mountains. The couple moved to California and to the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. in the early 1960s. Warren, who is retired, worked as a draftsman in construction. Katherine, who walks six miles a day, volunteers making books in Braille. The Kreises are the parents of Warren Kreis of Northridge and Kathleen Brezensky of Santa Clarita Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, and have four grandchildren GRANDCHILDREN, domestic relations. The children of one's children. Sometimes these may claim bequests given in a will to children, though in general they can make no such claim. 6 Co. 16. . CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Katherine and Warren Kreis |
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