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Note: 1930 - July 3 - Thursday - Wellsboro Gazette - RICHARD MACK WED THURSDAY - Son of Wellsboro People Marries Miss Doris Kirch, at Penn Yan, NY - At Penn Yan, N. Y., last Thursday, Richard R. Mack, a son of Mr. and Mrs . Everett W. Mack, of Wellsboro, and Miss Doris Winifred Kirch, daughter of Mrs. Durham Kirch, of Penn Yan, were married at the Bride's apartments by Rev. Walter Hendrickson, of Penn Yan Presbyterian church. The bride is a member of the faculty at Penn Yan High School, and is a graduate of Elmira College. Wellsboro people will remember her as a frequent guest of Miss Bessie Turkington, formerly of Wellsboro. Mr. Mack has a degree as Electrical Engineer from Penn State, and is at present associated with the New York Light & Power Corporation at Troy, N. Y. For the wedding ceremony, the bride wore a white dress, trimmed with green, and a large green hat. She carried pink roses and baby breath and was attended by Miss Helen Kaufman, of Palmyra, N. Y., who was gowned in pink chiffon with hat to match. The Bride's mother was attired in pink, while Mrs. Everett W. Mack, mother of the groom, wore flowered chiffon. Roses in beautiful profusion decorated the apartment. At the wedding breakfast at Alley' s Inn, Penn Yan, yellow was featured in wedding favors, flowers and food. Following a brief honeymoon, part of which was spent at Champaign's cottage, at Burgess, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Mack will be at home after July 7 at 83 Third street, Troy, N. Y.
1933 - July - Richard was living in Troy, NY, when his grandmother, Nancie Smith, died.
1993 - June 23 - Wed. - Wellsboro Gazette - obituary - Richard Russell Mack Sr., 87, died Sunday June 13, 1993, at Cape Cod Hospital, Huannis, Mass., after a brief illness. Born October 13, 1905, in Leetonia, he was the son of Everitt W. and May Smith Mack. He graduated from Wellsboro High School in 1922 and from Pennsylvania State University in 1926. He worked in Troy, NY, for New York Power and Light Co., before going to work a s a fire protection engineer for Factory Mutual Fire Insurance Co. in Norwood. He retired in 1969, and moved to Brewster, Mass., where he became the town's first water commissioner. Surviving are his wife of 63 years, Doris Kirch Mack of Brewster, Mass.; two sons, Richard Mack Jr. of Sun City West, Ariz., and Theodore Mack of Paulsmiths, NY; one brother, E. Neal Mack of Troy; one nephew, Alfred N. Mack of Caton, NY; two nieces, Katrina Kirch Martin and Kristin Patton of New York. Funeral and burial services were private at the convenience of the family.
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