A Shanghai Marriage 1933 – The Greggs

In April 1933 Ms Dorothy Mabry of San Antonio, Texas married Lieutenant Otis Cockerill Gregg Senior of Wayne, Nebraska in Shanghai. Otis was, at the time, serving aboard the Houston as a naval aviator, the flagship of the US Asiatic Fleet, stationed out of Shanghai. Apparently they honeymooned in Japan to see the cherry blossom. A year later the Gregg’s rotated out of Shanghai to Pensacola. They remained married for 62 years and had three sons, ten grandchildren and thirteen great grandchildren. The picture of herself Dorothy sent from Shanghai to Otis’s local paper The Lincoln Star (Nebraska) caught my eye as she looks so happy…