Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1947-01-30
No. TIA EQUITY
ORDER OF
PUBLICATION

The object of thisAsuit is for
the adoption of Patricia Dolores
kenney, and Joyce Monica Kenney,
Infants, by Harry S. LeVelle and
lnez LeVelle, his wife, and Tor the
change OF the name of the said
Patricia Dolores Kenney to Joan
Christine LeVelle and the change
of the name of the said Joyce
Monica Kenney to Joyce Monica
LeVelle.
The petition states in substance
that the petitioners, Harry S. Lee
Velle and Inez LeVelle, are resi-
dents of Montgomery County, STATE
Of Maryland, residing at 5000
Jones Mill Road, Chevy Chase,
Maryland, where the said Harry S.
LeVelle has SO resided for three
years; that the petitioner Inez Le-
Velle, is the mother of Patricia
Dolores Kenney, age eight years,
and Joyce Monica Kenney, age six
years, infants, born of previous
marriage to the defendant, Ed
ward j. Kenney, which was dis
solved by a decree of annulment
of the Supreme Court of the State
of New York for the County of
Queens, dated the 10Th day of
June, 1914, in which proceedings
the custody of the said infants was
awarded to the petitioner, Inez Ee-
Velle, a certified copy of said de-
cree being filed with said Petition,
marked Plaintiffs Exhibit No. l.
that the natural father of the saiG
infant children, Patricia Dolores
Kenney and Joyce Monica Kenney,
is the defendant, Edward j. Ken
ney, who resides at 404 Quapaw
Avenue, Hot Springs, Arkansas,
that the petitioners, Harry S. Le-
Velle and Inez LeVelle, were mar
ried on the 7th day of April, 1916,
at Chevy Chase, Maryland, and
have been living together as hus-
band and wife since said date con-
tinuously up to the time of the
filling of the petition; that the
infants, Patricia Dolores Kenney
ard Joyce Monica Kenney, have
been in the care and custody of
the petitioners since their said mar
riage, and prior 20 said marriage
and from the date of the decree OF
annulment of the said marriage be.
tween Inez LeVelle and Edward
J. Kenney the said infant children
have been in the care and custody
of the said 1nez LeVelle; that the
petitioners, Harry S. LeVelle and
Inez LeVelle, his wife, desire TO
adopt the said infant children,
Patricia Dolores Kenney and Joyce
Monica Kenney and to change their
names to Joan Christine LeVelle
and Joyce Monica LeVelle, respec-
lively, and to make said infant
children in all respects their own
legal children and heirs at law;
that the best interest and welfare
of said infant children will be pro-
NOTED by such adoption; that your
petitioners to said petition three
affidavits of respectable citizens
Of Montgomery County, Maryland.
as evidence of their fitness to adopt
said children, Patricia Dolores
Kenney and Joyce Monica Kenney,
said exhibits being marked Plain
tiff's Exhibits Nos. 2, j., and
respectively.
The petitioners then prav that
the Court pass an order declaring
said infant children, Patricia De
lores Kenney and Joyce Monica
Kenney, mentioned in said petition
to be the adopted children of the
petitioners. Harry S. LeVelle and
Inez LeVelle, and that the names
of said infant children be changed
from Patricia Dolores Kenney and
Joyce Monica Kenney to Joan
Christine LeVelle and Joyce Mon
lea LeVelle respectively; and tina:
the petitioners may have such other
and further relief as their case
may require and to the Court may
seem proper.
1T rs. THEREUPON, this goth
dav of January, 1947, by the Cir
auit Court for Montgomery County
sitting as a court of Equity, anc
by authority thereof, adjudged and
ordered that the petitioners, by
publishing copy of this Order in
some newspaper published in said
Montgomery County, once in eacs
of two successive weeks before the
9th day Of February, 1947, give
notice to the said absent defendant.
Edward J. Kenney, of the object
and substance of this petition
warning him to be and appear In
this Court in person or by Solicitor.
on or before the 10th day Of Feb
ruary, 1947, and to answer to the
said petition and abide by and per-
form such decree as may be passed
therein. A i
STEDMAN PRESCOTT,
JUDGE Of the Circuit Court
for Montgomery County, sit
ting as a Court of Equity.
True Cory Test: f
CLAYTON x. WATKINS, Clerk.
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