Nancy Dows Wiss Engaged To Wed

New York Times, July 28, 1943 [NYT ID: 88559191]

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NANCY DOWS WISS ENGAGED TO WED

Red Cross Nurse's Aide Is Fiancee of Lieut. Peter. A. Drury 3d of Marines

Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES.

ORANGE, N.J., July 27-Capt. Jerome Baker Wiss, Army Air Forces, now overseas, and Mrs. Wiss of Orange have announced the engagement of their daughter, Nancy Dows, to Lieut. Peter Arthur Drury 3d of the Marine Corps, son of Mrs. Charles Witte Waring of Charleston, S.C., and Lieut. Peter Arthur Drury Jr., USNR.

Miss Wiss was graduated from Miss Beard's School, Orange, and attended Colorado College. She is a member of the Junior League of the Oranges and for the last year has been active as a Red Cross nurse's aide.

Lieutenant Drury, who is a grandson of Mrs. Clarence Crittenden Calhoun of Washington, D.C., attended schools in Charleston, S.C., and Washington, D.C.