Fletcher, Alvarez wedding

Monday, April 21, 2008
Jade and Bryan Alvarez

SAN DIEGO, Calif. -- Mr. and Mrs. Mark Fletcher of McCook announce the marriage of their daughter, Jade Christine, to LT. Bryan T. Alvarez, son of Mr. and Mrs Everett Alvarez Jr. of Rockville, Md.

The couple was married April 14, 2007, in San Diego, Calif.

The bride is the granddaughter of Glenn and Catherine Reiners and Janet Fletcher of McCook and the late Howard Fletcher. She is a 2000 graduate of McCook High School and a 2004 graduate from the University of Nebraska Medical Center, College of Nursing.

The bridegroom is the grandson of Roujina llyas of Pittsburgh, Pa., and the late Dr. Shakir Ilyas, the late Everett Alvarez Sr., and the late Sally Alvarez. He graduated from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va., and from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md., in 2005. He is currently serving his second tour in Iraq with the 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Batalion, lst Marine Division, lst Marine Expeditionary Force as senior battalion surgeon.

He will return in April and the couple will be stationed in San Diego, Calif., at the San Diego Naval Hospital.

The couple will celebrate with a formal reception at the Brown Palace on June 14, in Denver, Colo., with family and friends.