
I also think she remarried and her name became Gertrude Lovinggood. I think the couple may have had three children and divorced before he remarried in the late 1930s. I spent a goodly amount of time looking on and the web for more information about Gertrude Burch Murchison.

Johnson,” all fraternity brothers of the groom and all of the staff, government hospital, Tuskegee, Alabama.” He served in that position from 1924-1927.Īmong the out-of-town guests were W.S. A member of the Fraternity’s Supreme Council, he was the first Editor in Chief of The Oracle. from Howard University and a Master’s from Columbia University. Her veil was caught with a wreath of orange blossoms and she carried a shower bouquet of bride’s roses and valley lilies.” The bride was “was radiantly lovely in a beautiful gown of lustrous white satin, covered with brocaded georgette. It took place in the living room “room before an altar improvised of foliage and floor baskets of white roses softly illuminated by white tapers.” in the home of the bride’s father in Atlanta. On September 14, 1925, Gertrude Ware Burch married John Prescott Murchison, an initiate of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. A graduate of Atlanta University, she was a member of the Gamma Sigma Chapter.

The first Editor in Chief of The Aurora, Sigma Gamma Rho’s official communication organ, was Gertrude Murchison. Downey Martin, Cubena McClure, Hattie Mae Dulin Redford, and Dorothy Hanley Whiteside. Sigma Gamma Rho’s founders are Nannie Mae Gahn Johnson, Mary Lou Allison Little, Vivian White Marbury, Bessie M. was founded on November 12, 1922, in Indianapolis, Indiana by seven young Black school teachers.
