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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1957
Page
6
The Welch home hosted a miscellaneous shower for Miss Seward with gardenias and shasta daisies in bridal colors. Miss Seward wore a pink carnation corsage on arrival as prizes for Irene Abernathy and Elsie McFarland were awarded. The celebration noted Miss Seward’s July 6, ? bridegroom Bob Neil at First Baptist Church.
Miss Jane Marlette was feted at Emerywood Country Club with a dessert bridge and canasta party. Hostesses Bet eeeeher Fagg and Mrs. Talley Wright welcomed guests from Mount Airy Raleigh Charlotte and Winston-Salem. Miss Marlette will marry Eddy Martin July 23 at First Methodist Church.
Miss Doris Allen of Winston Salem and her fiancé Arlen Yakley of High Point were feted at a miscellaneous shower in Oak View. Guests included Mrs. Oscar Shelton and three cohosts. A corsage was given on arrival and games were played. A larger wedding celebration for Yakley and Allen is planned in August at Oaklawn Baptist Church.
A week of social events and bridal showers fills High Point with gatherings. Miss Julia Reid Seward, Miss Shirley Stout, and Miss Connie McGee are highlighted with parties, showers, and the Williamson Breedlove wedding at Calvary Methodist Church. An astronomy aside notes a plane to the moon would need 38 days at 300 mph.
A bridal shower hosted by Mrs. W. L. Stewart Jr. honored Miss Barbara Williamson the June bride-elect at 906 Bridges St. Guests from Acclaim Hosiery Mills joined family including Miss Williamson’s mother Mrs. A. Bunting and grandmother Mrs. M. S. Manley. The couple to wed June 29 is Leonard Breedlove. an outdoor supper for attendants will be June 27 at 1502 Springfield Ave.
Miss Mary Layne Ballard wed in a Methodist ceremony as pink and white decor framed the altar. Attendants included Clarence Gravett and Grafton Riddle with guests from South Boston and Richmond in attendance.
The Credit Women's Breakfast Club will meet Thursday at the Sheraton Hotel at 7 30 a m Miss Ophelia Ball program chairman will preside over a skit titled This Is Your
Wedding plans are announced for Miss Barbara Ann Williamson and Leonard Mose Breedlove. The ceremony at Calvary Methodist Church in High Point North Carolina will be officiated by Rev W A Morton with nuptial music by Hazel Lee Rouse and Argie Wood. Attendants include Carolyn Howell and W L Stewart Jr with Gayle Williamson and Kay Bunting as junior bridesmaid and flower girl. Best man Raymond Lanier and ushers W L Stewart Jr Ronnie Calacut and Bobby Paas. The bride will be given in marriage by her stepfather Albert Bunting.
Mr and Mrs Worth Winslow announce the birth of a daughter named Cynthia Gail on June 20 at High Point Memorial Hospital Route 3 Greensboro The father’s reference to Hubbard and Englewood is noted by officers in the report of an apparent self inflicted gunshot death by 36 year old Richard V Calkins after a statement Life isn t worth living He fired a .32 revolver killing himself in front of four friends at the scene Police classify the death as a suicide
High Point Business and Professional Women's Club directors schedule a Tuesday meeting in the Chamber of Commerce rooms. The narrative also notes the Boston Tea Party occurred on December 16, 1773.
The WSCS of Ward Street Methodist Church will meet tonight at 7 30 at the church. Ezio Pinza was born in Rome in 1892.
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