Waterford couple married 50 years

        Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd O. Gross of Boston Post Road, Waterford, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary recently at a party at the Groton Lodge of Elks.

     They were married June 6, 1929, in Camden, Maine, and moved to Connecticut in 1963.  They are former residents of Scotland, Mystic and Groton.

Mr. Gross was a first class welder at General Dynamics-Electric Boat in Groton until he retired in 1974.
     The party was hosted by the couple's children.  They are Dolores McCarthy and Alan Gross, both of Norwich; Alexis Gross of Rochester, Jeanine Lawrence of Ledyard and Anita Butler of Mystic.
     The couple have 17 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

Article from: The Day, New London, Conn., Thursday, May 31, 1979

Dear Black Cat,

     Lloyd Gross and his wife Glenys dropped in from Connecticut to visit last week.  I've met them before as Glenys is a second cousin to the late Myrtle Gilchrest Ray, who sold me the old house where I now live, and Glenys stops in every summer to see her great-uncle's homestead.  Myrtle was a third cousin to my mother, Marianne Gilchrest Skoglund, which is why I was able to buy the house.  Myrtle wanted it kept in the family.  Glenys is also a third cousin to my mother and a second cousin to Gramp Wiley's father.  Gramp Wiley is my fourth cousin. 
     I thought I had all of those facts pretty well under control until last week when Glenys brought her daughter, Anita Fernald, with her.  Then I had to learn that Anita is not only a fourth cousin to me and Gramp Wiley but a first cousin to Ray Gross who lives over on Hayden Point.  That's because her father, Lloyd is Ray's uncle.  Got it?

Robert Skoglund, 
The Humble Farmer