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Nelson and Jerry's Legacy of Love Fund
(Left to right) James Williamson, Mary Ellen Jackson, Geraldine (Jerry) W. Gatison, and Nelson J. Gatison stand in front of the Dixwell Congregational Church in New Haven on Nelson and Geraldine’s wedding day, Sept. 1, 1956.
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