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San Antonio Express-News, 2 July 1942, page 13 — society column headed 'Parties Planned For Bride-Elect' announcing pre-wedding parties for Miss Lemoyne Flaherty before her July 8 marriage to Albert G. Menger; hosts include Mesdames Henry Mezzetti, John Burkholder, and Gus P. Menger, plus Mr. and Mrs. Henry Guerra, Mesdames P. E. Dickison and Gilmore Nogueira, and Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Haines
San Antonio Express-News, 2 July 1942, page 13 — society column headed 'Parties Planned For Bride-Elect' announcing pre-wedding parties for Miss Lemoyne Flaherty before her July 8 marriage to Albert G. Menger; hosts include Mesdames Henry Mezzetti, John Burkholder, and Gus P. Menger, plus Mr. and Mrs. Henry Guerra, Mesdames P. E. Dickison and Gilmore Nogueira, and Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Haines
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“Parties Planned For Bride-Elect” — Lemoyne Flaherty / Albert G. Menger — SA Express-News, 2 July 1942

Society column item in the San Antonio Express-News of Thursday, 2 July 1942 documenting the pre-wedding party calendar for Miss Lemoyne Flaherty, the bride-elect of Albert G. Menger. The wedding date is given as July 8, 1942 — primary-source attestation of Albert G. Menger’s marriage date.

Named hosts and events (chronological):

  • June 25 (Thursday): Party in the home of Mrs. Gus P. Menger, hosted by Mesdames Henry Mezzetti, John Burkholder, and Gus P. Menger and Miss Gloria Mezzetti.
  • Wednesday evening (July 1): Informal party in the garden of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Guerra, with only members of the wedding party invited.
  • 8 p.m. Thursday (July 2): Crystal shower at the home of Mrs. P. E. Dickison, with Mrs. Gilmore Nogueira as co-host.
  • 8 p.m. July 6: Dinner party at the country home of Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Haines for the engaged couple.

Family/role identification value: Confirms the Gus P. Menger (chairman of Hoffmann-Hayman) home as the venue for one of the bridal parties — Albert G. Menger’s father; and John Burkholder (later named in the 1963 SA Light director portrait) and the Burkholder family in Albert Menger’s pre-wedding social circle. Also confirms Mrs. Gus P. Menger as the future mother-in-law co-hosting the bride-elect at her own home.

This is one of the earlier dated society-column citations for Albert G. Menger, who later became president of Hoffmann-Hayman by 1960 (succeeding his father Gus P. Menger) — the marriage in 1942 places his coming-of-age career-junior period in the early 1940s war years. Albert G. Menger and Lemoyne Flaherty had at least one daughter — Ruth Lemoyne Menger, who appears in 1962 SA Light society notes as a Incarnate Word High School senior (see HH-CLIP-1962-0005).