Del Genio-Farrar SHELBYVILLE, Tenn. — Mrs. Clayton Farrar announces the engagement of her daughter, Martha Frances, to Nicholas Del Genio of New York, son of ,Mr. and Mrs. Andrea Del Genio, also of New York.

The ceremony will take place Sept. 10 at the Flat Creek Methodist church with the Rev. Paul F. Lanius of Columbia, Tenn., serving as the officiant.

The bride-elect is a graduate of Central high school and received her BS at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and has been connected with the city schools at Oak Ridge, Tenn.

Mr. Del Genio received his BS and LLB degrees at Yale university at New Haven, Conn., and is now connected with the Administration of Atomic Energy at Washington. On Sept. 15 they will sail for Milan. Italy, where Mr. Del Genio will be executive secretary of the American Chamber of Commerce.

The Tennessean
Nashville, Tennessee
Sunday, September 4, 1949
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Mr. and Mrs. Nick and Martha Farrar Del Genio, September 10, 1949. The photo of the newlyweds was taken at their wedding.
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Martha Frances Farrar was a native of Bedford County, TN, born in 1918, just outside of Shelbyville in the community of Flat Creek.
She attended Maryville College, and graduated from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. After graduating, during WWII, she took a position as hostess and administrator of the Enlisted Men's Club at Camp Forrest in Tullahoma.TN, not far from Shelbyville. Sometime later (-1943 or 1944) she went to work at the Clinton Engineer Works in Oak Ridge, TN where she worked as a dietician and cafeteria manager for thc Oak Ridge Schools until her marriage.

While in Oak Ridge, Martha lived in 1946/1947 with two teacher friends, Dorothy and Mildred Shawhon, in an E-2 Apartment at 116 Vandalia Road near New York Avenue. Later the Shawhon sisters left Oak Ridge and Martha moved to another E-2 at 103 West Vance Road.

She met Nick while here in Oak Ridge, probably in October 1945 and they married Sept 10, 1949. They were married in the Methodist Church of Flat Creek, TN which is nine miles south of Shelbyville, TN.
Bernard Menke of Oak Ridge (Security) was best man for Nick, and ushers included Howard Woodside (lawyer, later judge) of Oak Ridge. The photo of the newleyweds was taken at their wedding.

Among the wedding guests from Oak Ridge were Francelle Buckminster and her friends Nancy Talbert Thomas and Peggy Marrs all teachers at ORHS; Ruth Reagor; and Ellen Woodside.

Elaine Trauger was a school dietician (ORHS) like Martha and she and husband Don knew both Martha and Nick while they were in Oak Ridge. Francelle Buckminster kept in touch with Martha through the years.

During the years Nick and Martha livcd in Washington, she taught school, Home Economics, and she and Nick were active volunteers in various activities including their Wesley United Methodist Church. They had a beach home they !oved to visit at Rehoboth Beach, DE. Martha and her sister Sara Farrar Dodson of Shelbyville, TN waere quite close and even by some folks regarded as twins. They both loved to trave,. and took many two-week vacation trips to other countries over the years. Sara said ne year Martha was detemined to go on a safari in Kenya, and Sara could not go so Martha went by herself and had a grand time.

About two years after Nick's death, Martha donated the autographed dollar bill that Nick so treasured to the Museum in Oak Ridge, the American Museum of Science and Energy, as they had discussed and agreed.

She succumbed after a long battle with lung cancer, dying on August 25, 1999, at ge 81. She is buried wkh Nick and many Farrar relatives in the Rosebank Cemetery in the Flat Creek Community now Shelbyville, TN.

The museum's exhibit of the treasured dollar bill was opened to the public on Saturday, June 10th, 2000 and in attendance representing the family were Mrs. Sara Farrar Dodson and her son Eddie Dodson. A private reception and exhibit preview the day before was attended by two of Martha's nieces, Mrs Bonita F. Eblen and Mrs. Betty F. Hord, both of Murfreesboro, TN.

Source:
"From Us in Oak Ridge to Tojo"-NDG
The Story of Lt. Nicholas Del Genio's Autographed Dollar Bill
Wm. J. Wilcox Jr.

http://www.oakridgeheritage.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Bill-Wilcox-How_the_Last_Piece_of_Little_Boy_Got_to_Tinian_Island.pdf

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Martha Farrar DelGenio, 81, Grove Street, Chevy Chase, Md., a retired schoolteacher, died Tuesday, at her home. Cause not disclosed. Graveside services 10:30 a.m. today, Rosebank Cemetery, the Flat Creek community, Bedford County, Tenn. Howell-Lawrence Funeral Home, Shelbyville, in charge. Survivor: sister, Sara Dodson, Shelbyville.

The Tennessean
Nashville, Tennessee
Friday, August 27, 1999
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