Doris Shea Strand began corresponding with servicemen during World War II, little suspecting that one of her pen-pals would become her husband. The couple was married in an evening ceremony in the chapel at Forest Lawn cemetery in La Crescenta, California. Doris explained, "Forest Lawn...had funerals every hour during the day. Starting at 5:30 they had weddings on the hour. So 9:30 was the last appointment of the day and it was the only vacancy they had."
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
Dates: 1944–1946
