Bruce Dalland

Aunt Jean was born Mary Jean Valverde to Mildred and Daniel Carey Valverde in New York. She had an older sister, Mildred Lorraine (went by Lorraine - she was my mother) who lived most of her life in Dover, NJ, and also had a younger sister - Oralie Adelle, who lived in the Los Angeles area, most recently in San Bernardino, but also lived for a while in Dover, NJ. On her father's side, she was descended from Jose Valverde of Pascagoula, MS, of course there is a lot of other background there. On her mother's side, she was related to the Story's, Hart's, Smith's and several other well-storied families. With her husband John Mushaney, she had twins - Linda Susan and Carey, and later Laurie. Carey passed away rather young after having successful open heart surgery, but having complications after the surgery. I won't go into details about the other two for reasons I won't discuss here either.