Local engagements and weddings announced in region
The notice lists multiple engagements and wedding plans across North Carolina and Mississippi. Betty Holland of Elizabeth City is engaged to Lieutenant Thomas Mitchell Smith of Biloxi. January 12 wedding planned. Betty Jean Gaddy becomes Mrs. Ridge after a Fairfield Methodist ceremony. Emily Sue Thomas of Tupelo engaged to Jesse Haywood Washburn Jr. Miss Doris James Davis to wed Lowell E. Lanier with wedding set for December 22. Lynda Gray Myers becomes Mrs. Belvin Stone. Harriette Barham engaged to Albert Hartwell Best III, who is Ensign in the U S Navy. she interns in High Point City schools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Harry Bell
Elizabeth City
Betty Holland
Thomas Mitchell Smith
Biloxi
Mississippi
Edwin Paul Smith
Mr. Smith
Paul Benjamin Ridge
Betty Jean Gaddy
Fairfield Methodist Church
A. B. Gaddy
Route 4
High Point
C. B. Ridge
Route 1
Joseph Carl Stone
Lynda Gray Myers
Memorial Methodist Gun & Thomasville
Alfred Myers
Belvin Stone
Methodist Ceremony Unites Miss Gaddy and Paul Ridge
Miss Betty Jean Gaddy and Paul Benjamin Ridge were married at Fairfield Methodist Church last evening in a ceremony led by Rev. A. T. Tuttle. The altar featured white chrysanthemums with ferns and palms, and guests and wedding party wore formal attire including ivory lace and American Beauty velvet gowns. The bride’s gown was rosepoint lace with a cathedral train, and she carried a white Bible topped with an orchid. The event included her sister as matron of honor and attendants from Charlotte and local guests. reception followed in the church vestibule.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fairfield Methodist Church
Betty Jean Gaddy
Paul Benjamin Ridge
A. T. Tuttle
F. B. Allman
Irene Riker
Sylvia Ridge
Marilyn Cain
Charlotte
Ridge
Donald Lomax
Ray Mabe
Bobby Lawson
Delma Ray Gaddy
Clyde Baxter Jr
Thomasville
Lynda Gray Myers
Joseph Carl Stone
Memorial Methodist Church
Harold Robinson
George Corby
Harold Groves
Mary Ruth Morris
Helen Thomason
Lexington
Patsy Myers
Susanne Rogers
Sylvia Lackey
Woman's College
Eleanor Gray
Beverly ‘Harrison
Charles Stone
Salisbury
Freddie Perdue
Jimmy Prevo
Buddy Harrison
Charles Myers
January Wedding Planned By Miss Bell and Lt Smith
The engagement of Betty Holland Bell to Lieutenant Thomas Mitchell Smith is announced by her parents Dr and Mrs John Harry Bell of Elizabeth City. The wedding is planned for January 12 at First Baptist Church Elizabeth City. After marriage the couple will reside in Monterey California where Lt Smith will be stationed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Betty Holland Bell
Thomas Mitchell Smith
John Harry Bell
Riverside Ave
Elizabeth City
Smith
Edwin Paul Smith
Biloxi
Mississippi
Mr. Smith
First Baptist Church
Miss Bell
Woman's
High Point City
Rice Institute
United Heliconer Anti Squadron
Navy
Monterrey
California
Mississippi Girl Betrothed To Jesse H Washburn Jr
Miss Emily Sue Thomas of Tupelo announces her engagement to Jesse Heywood Washburn Jr of High Point North Carolina. The wedding is planned for early spring in Tupelo. Emily Sue Thomas attended Ward Belmon t College and the University of Mississippi earning a BA in education and is in Chi Omega. Washburn is UNC Chapel Hill graduate class of 1952 with Sigma Chi Phi Beta Kappa and Beta Gamma Sigma memberships.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tupelo
James Murphy Thomas
Emily Sue
Jesse Heywood Washburn Jr
Jesse Heywood Washburn
High Point N. C
Ward Belmont College
University of Mississippi
Chi Omega Sorority
Thomas
G.M
Washburn
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill
Sigma Chi Fraternity
Phi Beta Kappa
Beta Gamma Sigma
Betrothal of Miss Barham to Albert Best Revealed
Mrs. Charles Dewey Barham of Raleigh announces the engagement of her daughter Harriette Ann Barham to Albert Hartwell Best Ensign in the United States Navy. She is a Duke University student and high point intern. He trains in aviation at Corry Field Pensacola Florida with a spring wedding planned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harriette Ann Barham
Charles Dewey Barham
Raleigh
Mr. Barham
Goldsboro
Albert Hartwell
Best, III
Albert Hartwell Best
Best
U. S. Oak
Hig Point
Harriette Ann
United States Navy
Miss Barham
Saint Mary's School
Duke University
Miss Barsham
High Point
Duke
Delta Delta Delta Nawane
Sity
Corry Field
Pensacola, Fla
Scholastic business fraternity member serves in Navy reserves
A former member of a scholastic business fraternity completed two years of service with the Navy and now serves as an AI officer in the Naval Reserves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navy
Naval Reserves
Davis Davis Engagement Plan Set For December Wedding
Mr and Mrs James E Davis announce engagement of daughter Doris James Davis of Route 1 Sophia to Lowell E Lanier Route 5 son of Mr and Mrs E Lanier of Route 5 The bride to be Doris is a 1954 graduate of Randleman High School and employed by General Electric Mrs Lanier is a 1953 graduate of Seagrove High School and works at Burlington Mills in Asheboro The wedding is planned for December.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Doris James Davis
Lowell E. Lanier
James E Davis
Sophia
Edgar E. Lanier
Asheboro
James E. Davis
Route 1
Ee E. Lanier
Route 5
Miss A Gy
Randleman High School
General Electric
Lanier
Seagrove High School
Burlington Mills
Asheboroorp
Dee
Also Mentioned on This Page
Emily Sue Thomas
Miss
Jesse Haywood Washburn, Jr
N. C
Jesse Haywood Washburn
Brentley Circle
Mrs
Miss Gaddy
Paul B. Ridge
Lt. Smith
Miss Myers
Joseph C. Stone
Jesse H. Washburn Jr
Albert Best
Davis - Lanier
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