Clair and Rita O'Connell Metty

Clair Metty and Rita Veronica O’Connell, parents of David Clair and Robert John Metty. They were married on 7 July 1936 at St. Rose Of Lima Catholic Church in Avoca, Minnesota, a small town in southwestern Minnesota. Clair was born at the small town of Currie, Minnesota, a few miles from Avoca, on 4 July 1914. He remained in that area until WWII when he and Rita went to California to work in the defense industry. After WWII, Clair and Rita returned to the Currie area and stayed until 1954. They moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota that year and remained there until the present. Rita was the daughter of John and Catherine (Kearns) O’Connell, born on 8 April 1910 near Lime Creek, Minnesota. She died on 19 October 2004 at her home in Minneapolis and is buried at Resurrection Cemetary in Mendota Heights, Minnesota.
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