Jack E. Nye ^{1 2 3 4 5 6}

   FamilySearch ID: LF2L-19C.

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Census in 1940 in Greene Twp., Franklin, PA. ⁷ The 1940 census recorded on Route 614: Jay Nye, farm forehand, 24, living with wife Ethel, 25; Robert, 3; and Jackie, 8 months old. They lived in the same house in 1935. Everyone was born in Pennsylvania.

2. Newspaper: The Sentinel: Nye-Beecher Wedding, 10 May 1961, Carlisle, Cumberland, PA. ¹ Nye-Beecher

Miss Donna Mae Beecher, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Earl S. Beecher, Walnut Bottom, became the bride of Jack E. Nye, son of Mrs. Ethel M. Nye, RD3, Shippensburg, on Apr. 30, 1961, in the Centerville Evangelical Lutheran Church. Rev. Laverne Stough performed the double-ring ceremony. Miss Peggy Skelly, RD4, was organist. George Houck, Newville, sang.
The bride, given in marriage by her father, wore a floor-length gown of white satin, with a bodice of Chantilly lace. The gown featured a bateau neckline, long sleeves tapering to points over the hands, and a chapel train. She carried a white Bible with a white orchid and lily-of-the-valley steamers. Mrs. William Ashburn, RD4, sister of the bride, was matron of honor. Miss Glenda Markle, RD5, and Miss Darla Wyrick, RD1 Shippensburg, a cousin of the bride, were bridesmaids.
The matron of honor wore a light blue street-length with short sleeves and a bateau neckline. She wore a small circle hat with a face veil to match her gown and carried a basket of white daisy pompons with light blue ribbons.
Miss Markle and Miss Wyrick wore similar dresses in yellow and lavender with matching hats and veils, and carried baskets of white daisy pompons with matching ribbon. The bride's mother wore a navy-blue dress and white accessories. The bridegroom's mother wore a navy blue dress and navy accessories. Both wore corsages of white cymbidium orchids.
Andrew Fry, Shippensburg, was best man. Richard Weaver, RD1, Shippensburg, and Larry Nye, bridegroom, were ushers. A reception was held in the church parish house.
The bride, a graduate of Big Spring High School, Class of 1960, is employed in the office of lhe Carlisle Food Market. The bridegroom, a 1967 graduate of Shippensburg High School, is employed by Towne Cleaners, Shippensburg.

3. Residence: on 1 Nov 1975 in Shippensburg, Cumberland, PA. ⁴

4. Residence: in 1994 in Shippensburg, Cumberland, PA. ⁶

Jack married Donna Mae Beecher, daughter of Earl Sharp Beecher and Jeanette Nancy Wyrick, on 30 Apr 1961 in Centerville, Cumberland, PA.¹ (Donna Mae Beecher was born on 17 Sep 1942 in Centerville, Cumberland, PA,^{2 5 8} died on 9 Nov 2017 in Chambersburg, Franklin, PA ⁵ and was buried on 15 Nov 2017 in Chambersburg: Parklawns Memorial Gardens, Franklin, PA ⁵.)