Note: From an email letter written by Celeste Wemp, dated 9 February 2001:
My mother died before I was two years old and I was raised by my fathe
r´s sister and husband. I went by their name though never legally ado
pted. They were James Roy and Lucia Jerome Magee Zimmerman. All throu
gh school I was Celeste Zimmerman, but legal documents had to be Leon
a Celeste Magee. It would probably be good to put the Zimmerman in so
mewhere in parenthesis. In fact a funny story we tell is when we wen
t to get our marriage license and this wasin 1947 - world war 2 era, t
he clerk asked for all my husband´s vital statistics and then said Wh
at´s your fiancee´s name? He said her name
is... and turning to me asked what is your name anyway. He knew Zimm
erman
wasn´t the legal one. She gave us a very peculiar look. I can just i
magine her at the dinner table that evening telling about the couple w
ho came in and the man didn´t even know her name.
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