Avra N. Pershing, Jr. and Dorothy Gail McKee

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Husband Avra N. Pershing, Jr. ¹

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           Born: 20 Mar 1905 - Greensburg, Westmoreland Co, PA 1
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         Father: Avra N. Pershing, Sr. (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Minnie Everett (      -      ) 1

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       Marriage: 24 Jul 1929 1

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Wife Dorothy Gail McKee ¹

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         Father: Dr. Claude Worth McKee (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Anna Humphries (      -      ) 1

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General Notes: Husband - Avra N. Pershing, Jr.

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After being graduated from the Greensburg, Pennsylvania, High School in 1922 he entered Lafayette College, from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Science, with the class of 1926. He then matriculated at the School of Law, University of Pittsburgh, being graduated in 1929, a Bachelor of Laws. Admitted to the Pennsylvania bar, that same year, he then engaged in a general practice of his profession in Greensburg.
From his high school days, Mr. Pershing displayed qualities of leadership and service. He was elected president of his senior class, a distinction which was repeated when he led his graduating class at the University of Pittsburgh Law School. In church, he was for some years superintendent of the Sunday school of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ. In later years his interest in civic affairs carried him into wider fields. Among his activities were membership on the board of directors of the Young Men's Christian Association and the Young Men's Christian Association Home; of the local advisory board of the Salvation Army, and the Community Forum Committee. A Mason, Mr. Pershing was affiliated with Greensburg Lodge, No. 518, Free and Accepted Masons. He also belonged to the Greensburg Rotary Club, Phi Delta Phi, legal fraternity, and the Phi Delta Theta, college fraternity. Along professional lines he was a member of the Pennsylvania State Bar Association and the Westmoreland County Bar Association. He was an active Republican in politics.
All athletics always engaged Mr. Pershing's keen interest, although football was the greatest of games to him. In 1920 and 1921 he played on the Greensburg High School State championship teams. In 1922, 1923, 1924, and 1925, he was a member of Lafayette's eleven. He was line coach of the Greensburg High School team in 1926 and 1927, and in 1928 he coached the football team at Hurst High School in Mount Pleasant Township. He was a member of and a president of the Westmoreland County Football Officials' Association.

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General Notes: Wife - Dorothy Gail McKee

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He was educated in the Greensburg, Pennsylvania, High School; the Baldwin School, in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania; and the University of Michigan. Like her husband, she was active in civic and educational affairs, serving as president of the Greensburg College Club (1937-38 and 1938-39) inclusive, was a member of the board of the Greensburg Library Association, and identified with various women's organizations.

1 Lewis Clark Walkinshaw, A.M, Annals of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. IV (New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1939), Pg 122.