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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1955
Page
17
A daughter named Debra DelRae was born on June 13 at Jeffersonville Hospital in Tazewell Virginia to Mr. and Mrs. Joe McGinnis of Burke’s Garden.
Betty Robertson married Edwin Kincaid in a June 4 ceremony at First Christian Church Pearisburg. The bride wore a light blue suit with pink rosebud corsage, attended by Thelma Parcell. best man was John E Wornal. A reception followed at Nelson Oliver home. The bride, a Pearisburg High School graduate, is training in X-ray technology at Bluefield Sanitarium. Kincaid attended Concord.
The Richlands Canasta Club met at Mullens Motel dining room with 19 members and two guests from Alameda and Georgetown. Five tables played with high score prize to Mrs. Flannary, low score to Mrs. Calvin Thompson, and bingo to Miss Willie Lee. Cricket Jessee and Mrs. Ingooer Baker served as hostesses.
A couple, presently employed by W. R. Keesee and Company and Renux Field and Company of New York, plan to reside at 202 Oakhurst Ave in Bluefield after a southern wedding trip.
Local social notes report Mrs. James T. Coulthard returning home from a Lake Charles vacation. Families including the Collins, Coe, Levine, and Roberts clans are mentioned with visits and summer plans. Recent births announced list several couples and May dates. Hospital patients named various individuals underwent surgery recently.
Mrs Bernard Guagnini and children of Ephrata Pennsylvania visit Mr and Mrs Roy West this week. Miss Virginia Dalton of Itmann visits her sister Mrs F W Young last weekend. Aubrey Bailey and son Jimmy leave Friday for several weeks with relatives in Mr and Mrs Newton Reed and daughter Rita visit relatives in Elizabethton Tennessee last weekend.
Tates Chapel Church hosts a luck supper Thursday night honoring the Rev M C Phillipps Jr. He was appointed at the Holston conference annual meeting to Bridgers in the coming year.
Miss Dorothy Havens of Bluefield and Joseph Prazecky of New York City wed in a June 4 ceremony at Union Mission Chapel. The vows were conducted by Rev. Monroe Dodson before an altar of gladioli and laurel. The bride wore Chantilly lace with a satin gown and veil, carried a white Bible, and was escorted by her brother. The reception followed at the bridegroom’s sister’s home. After a brief wedding trip they will reside in New York City.
Betty Jean Young of Black wolfe and Robert Anthony Fanning of Jaeger exchanged nuptial vows in a 2 pm Saturday May 28 home ceremony. The couple, at the groom's Taeger residence, received guests with family members and friends assisting, then an open house reception. The bride, daughter of Mr and Mrs, wore an ice blue gown with a blue net veil. she carried a white Bible with an orchid. The groom, son of Mr and Mrs, wore formal attire. After a reception, the couple planned a trip to The Greenbrier, White Springs, and Washington, D C. The bride is a nurse. the groom attended Roanoke College and will continue studies at a college in Roanoke.
Mr and Mrs Billy Shark and children Cynthia and Mark of Florida left Sunday after visiting his parents Mr and Mrs Elmer Landreth Mrs G L Lee has returned from Memphis Tenn where she has been visiting for two weeks Mr and Mrs Ward Riggs and son of Pennsylvania are visiting her ye Mr and Mrs Clarence ford Mr and Mrs Vance Petty and children Mr and Mrs Zeb Petty and Howard of Detroit Mich visited relatives and friends here last week The Pettys are former residents of McComas Mr and Mrs Buford Helman and daughter Sandy Mrs Clarence Taylor and daughter Phyllis and Mrs W D a were visiting Mr and Mrs C Biggs at Oakvale Sunday Butch Wolfe of Keystone is here visiting his grandparents Mr and Mrs L H Wolfe
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