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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1947
Page
8
The Bouchelle Garden Club meets at 10 a.m. at Mrs W E Hoffman home on Noyes Ave with a flower exhibit planned. Kanawha Country Club hosts ladies day with golf at 4 a.m. and luncheon at 1 30 p.m. Mesdames Graham Grettam and Picklesimer are hostesses.
Miss Jean Richmond Hornor and Thomas Edward Childress of St. Albans married last Thursday at the Hornor home in Weston. The bride wore a petal pink crepe frock with pink carnations in bouquet and headdress, attended by sister Winifred Horner and James Henry Simms, while Mrs. Childress studied at Morris Harvey and West Virginia Wesleyan colleges and is active in sororities. The groom, a Charleston National Bank employee, is a St. Albans high school graduate. They plan to live in St. Albans after a Pittsburgh wedding trip and returned in navy linen for traveling.
Personal notes list Mr. and Mrs. Carl S. Oldach and their young daughter leaving Kanawha Blvd for Wilmington Delaware where they will establish a home, with many parties before departure. Other arrivals, trips to Texas City, convalescent and camp plans feature prominent families and local figures across Huntington.
Miss Nancy Sue Hill daughter of Mrs. James Hill of Huntington married Marvin H Dill son of Mr. and Mrs. EO Dill of Cass at Tre Johnson Memorial church Huntington. Officiant Dr RollasKenaston led a candlelit ceremony with a music program by Miss Emily Shadburn and Mr Luther Woods Jr. Attendants wore yellow dotted swiss gowns. reception followed at Hotel Prichard. The couple, Marshall college graduates, plan to reside in Louisville at 209 York St. after a Sea Island trip.
Miss Jene Turner daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. D. Turner married James Alford Brightwell Saturday at his parents home in St Albans. Rev. Leyi Workman officiated with Miss Anna Lee Turner and the bridegroom’s father as attendants. The bride wore ivory crepe with black accessories and a pink rosebud corsage. The Brightwells are graduates of St Albans High School and he works for George Weimer and Sans, Inc.
Ruth Silverstein and Arthur Cohen wed in Virginia and New Rochelle ceremonies. Ruth Silverstein, daughter of Mr and Mrs Joe Silverstein of One Street, married Mr. Arthur Cohen, son of Mrs Moses Cohen of New Rochelle, at the Virginia Street Temple with Rabbi Louis Cashdan officiating.
Miss Peepy Preston daughter of the late John J. Preston of New York wed Dr. Keden Tierney son of Mrs. John Tierney of Clarksburg in a nuptial Mass officiated by Rev. Robert L. Keesler at St Thomas the Apostle Church in Washington. Mrs Tierney, WVU graduate and Washington Post fashion editor, is a former society editor and Kappa Kappa Gamma member. Dr Tierney, WVU AB and George Washington IMD degrees, Eiki Nappa Psi member, served as a major in the Army Medical Corps in the South Pacific, Ashford and Walter Reed hospitals. Attendants were Mrs Hikes and James P Tierney. Mrs William A Shepard of Kanawha Blvd is visiting Cleveland.
Recent bride Mary Pauline Haning of Poca will marry John Elmo Walton at Sacred Heart Church on June 19. Attendants were Mrs. Joseph Coleman and C. Spanhour. The bride, a Poca High School graduate, works for Atlantic Greyhound Lines. the groom works for Conlon Baking Co. They will reside at 362 Glenwood Ave after a trip to Cincinnati.
Mr and Mrs Walter R Flowers of Stuart Florida announce the engagement of their daughter Ruby Mae to George Alvin Whittington of Lansing Michigan formerly of Charleston. The wedding is planned for the early part of July.
Mrs James Craft presided over a YWCA dessert bridge where new members were introduced. New members include Mesdames J H L Fraser Cincinnati Henry Shires Richmond VA and James L Moorehead Saginaw MI. Prizes were won by Mesdames Craft Thomas A Tighe Jerry Mitchell and R E Tams with hosts Mrs G A Stucker and Mrs J J Fitzgibbons. Thirty members attended. Miss Frances Wells Hundley Huntington arrived to visit her aunt Mrs Howard Eister of McClung Street.
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