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Patrick and Adele Russell of McLean plan to celebrate their 70th wedding anniversary on Sunday, Feb. 24.

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Celebrating 70th Anniversary

Patrick and Adele Russell of McLean wed in February of 1943.

Pat Russell was a handsome young Navy reservist and a student at the University of Minnesota when he met 17-year-old Adele Marie Bissonnette at a friend's house in Minneapolis in 1939.

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