Wedding Wednesday - Cruse and Peck Wed, 1941

Monroe News Star - 11/23/1941

Mamie Dell Cruse weds Henry Clarendon Peck

Mamie Dell Cruse was born on March 21, 1920 to the marriage of Mamie Couey and Reginald Gordon Cruse.  She was a little over eight months old when her mother died.  Her father remarried in 1922 to Lavilla Volentine.

In 1932, Reginald Cruse moved his family from Caldwell Parish to settle in Sicily Island.  It is here where Mamie Dell met and later married Henry Clarendon Peck in November of 1941.

Clarendon Peck was born on June 21, 1919 to the marriage of William Smith Peck, II and Barbara Estelle Woodward.  

One child, Henry Clarendon, Jr., was born to this marriage.

Mamie Dell Cruse Peck died on October 25, 2002 and Henry Clarendon Peck, Sr. died on January 24, 2004.  Both are interred in the Highland Park Cemetery in Sicily Island, Catahoula Parish, Louisiana.