Despite Hurricane Katrina, Roderick McBane, youngest son of Dick and Marilynn McBane was married to Cindy Wagner in Albany, Louisiana, on Saturday, Sept. 3. Roderick, 37, is an actuary with the American National Insurance Co. in Galveston, TX. Cindy, 34, is an accountant in Houston, TX. Albany, Cindy's hometown, is roughly 50 miles north of New Orleans, suffered relatively little damage, but electric power had not been fully restored by the time of the wedding. As a result, the ceremony was moved from one church to another which did have power (and air-conditioning). Dick and Marilynn, along with older son, Lachlan and his family, had initially planned to drive to the wedding from the Atlanta area. Of necessity, plans became rather fluid. Eventually, Dick, Marilynn and Lachlan were able to find an available motel room in Beaumont, TX. They flew from Atlanta to Houston on Friday, Sept. 2, drove to Beaumont, and then from Beaumont to Albany (about three and a half hours) and return on Saturday, and flew back to Atlanta on Sunday. The excursion into the hurricane damage region was uneventful, except for the wedding, which was flawless thanks to the extraordinary preparations and resourcefulness of the Wagners.
The wedding trip capped a difficult summer for Dick who broke his left ankle on May 13 (Friday, of course) while playing ball with the grandchildren. He had surgery on May 23, acquiring a metal plate and ten screws in the ankle. He was finally cleared to begin walking without crutches on Aug. 2, and was able to pass through the airport metal detectors without setting off any alarms despite all his new hardware.
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