PETE AND LEE MERLO Burbank residents...

PETE AND LEE MERLO

Burbank residents Pete and Lee Merlo celebrated their 60th wedding

anniversary with a family reunion at the Sportsmen’s Lodge in Studio

City with more than 100 relatives attending the celebration.

The couple were married Dec. 12, 1942, at Our Lady of Mercy Church

in Merced.

Pete attended school in Sanger. After he served three years in the

Army, he and his wife settled in Burbank, where they have lived for

58 years, and were the owners of Merlo Communications for more than

30 years. They are members of the Keystone Seniors, the Italian

Catholic Federation Branch 101 and St. Finbar Catholic Church.

They have taken many overseas trips, cruises and traveled

throughout the states.

The couple have two sons. Ronald and Janet of Glendale have two

sons, Rion and Reid, and Steven and Lupi of Northridge have three

children, Amy, Christopher and David.