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Marybelle (Wealthy) Romick & Son, James Lee Romick

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Title

Marybelle (Wealthy) Romick & Son, James Lee Romick

Subject

Romick, Marybelle Wealthy (ca 1926- )
Romick, James Lee (1942- )

Description

Marybelle (Wealthy) Romick pictured with her son, James "Jimmy" Lee Romick. James was born in 1942.

Marybelle was the daughter of John Calvin and Mary Frances (Dodson) Wealthy.

She married George Elmer Romick in 1940. His parents were George Washington and Edna May (McInturff) Romick.

Marybelle's husband enlisted in the U.S. Army March 1944 and was killed on October 5, 1944. Jimmy was only 2 years old when his father died. Marybelle never re-married.

Creator

Morrison Studio

Source

Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society

Publisher

Shenandoah County Library

Date

ca 1944

Contributor

Identified in February 2009 by Mary L. Weaver and Doug Dellinger. Mary was Marybelle (Wealthy) Romick's great niece and James Romick's 2nd cousin. Her great aunt had the same picture in her home.

Rights

IN COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE PERMITTED

Relation

Marybelle (Wealthy) Romick appears in Morrison Studio Collection numbers 001134 and 007278.
Her twin sister, Pearl E. Clem, appears in Morrison Studio Collection numbers 001133 and 007289.

Identifier

001134

Original Format

Glass Negative

Citationzork

Morrison Studio, “Marybelle (Wealthy) Romick & Son, James Lee Romick,” Shenandoah County Library Archives, accessed December 5, 2025, https://archives.countylib.org/items/show/23416.

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