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The bride’s cousin, Elizabeth Smith, was the maid of honor. Bridesmaids included Marilyn Tydd, another cousin of the bride, Cindy Johnson and Toni Berg.Duane DeYoung of Bridge-view, 111., was the best man. Groomsmen were Roger DeYoung, brother of the bridegroom, Frederick W. Tydd, Jr., the bride’s brother, and William DeMont, a member of the Fifth Army band.Wedding songs included “0 Perfect Love” and ‘‘The Lord’s Prayer” song by the Thornton junior college Madrigals under the direction of J. Albert Kin-dig.Seek Financial AssisFOR HER daughter’s wedding. Mrs. Tydd chose an apricot linen ensemble with an apricot and muted olive flowered hat. The bridegroom’s mother wore a pale yellow knit ensemble with matching accessories.Immediately following the wedding, a reception was held in the church parlor. Out-of-town guests were present from Wisconsin, Massachusetts, Nebraska, and Virginia.The young couple took a wedding trip to Springfield, 111. Shortly after their return, Sp 5 Roger DeYoung was sent to Germany with the 76th army band.The bride is a 1964 graduate of Thornridge high school and Thornton junior college and attended the University of Illinois. Her husband, also a Thom-ridge and Thornton junior college graduate, attended Hope college in Holland, Mich.Young Girl’s Fight IDiana Bates, 16, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Bates, 18436 Dixie highway, Homewood, was in her junior year of high school when the accident occurred.THEN, IN one horrible instant, all of that changed. A screaming siren pierced the tranquility of the late fall night and eventually disrupted the entire Bates home.A car driven by young Diana neared the intersection of Ashland avenue and Ridge road in Homewood that Sunday. Seconds later, that siren became emmeshed in the horriblesounds of twisting metal, flying glass and human pain as the Bates’ car and a sheriff’s squad car collided in the intersection.She was blonde, blue-eyed and a part-time model in the Teen Age shop of the Marshall Field store in Park Forest. Until that fateful date — September 25, 1966 — she was a typical young teenage girl, full of dreams and hopes for the uncertain future. She wanted some day to become a nurse because as she put it, “I love people and I want to do things for them.”The Bates family was also typical. Her father was an engineer for the Illinois Central railroad. Her mother was a housewife busily engaged in raising Diana and her sister along with two young sons.After the collision, Diana was taken to a nearby hospital suffering critical head injuries, and she has been hospitalized ever since. Today Diana Lin Bates, 16, is winning an uphill battle for her life. Her steady progress holds promise that she may soon be able to go home.With constant nursing care and specialized treatment at Billings hospital, Diana is now able to recognize her parents and is aware of visitors. Her parents confidently report that there is now a definite hope that she may soon be able to go home.BUT THAT home is in urgent need as her parents are participating in a different kind of battle — a search for assistance.The out-of-the ordinary medical, surgical and nursing care which has saved Diana’s life and has given her a chance to reach womanhood, has out of necessity, been costly.Her father’s resources have been exhausted. Her parents have reached the limit of indebtedness in assuring thatYoung Bride to Join Husband Stationed with Army BandA young Dolton bride will leave tomorrow for Germany to join her husband who is stationed with the 76th army band.The young couple were married in a candlelight ceremony on March 11 in the First Reformed church of South Holland. The bride is the former Kathleen May Tydd, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred W. Tydd of 14632 Evers, Dolton. The bridegroom is Ronald Wayne DeYoung, son of the Gilbert DeYoungs of 30 East 162nd street, South Holland.The Rev. Arnold Punt heard the vows of the double ring ceremony before an altar decorated with two spiral cathedral candelabra.GIVEN IN marriage by her father, the bride chose a floor length gown of linen embossed with Venice lace. The gown was designed with a modified empire waist, an A-line skirt and kabuki sleeves. Falling from the shoulder line, the court train was also embossed with the Venice lace. A crown of pearls secured her floor length veil. She carried a duchess bouquet of stephano-tis, sweetheart ivy and French-ed gladioli.The bridal attendants were attired in floor length gowns of aqua linen in a skimmer style with kabuki sleeves highlighted with lace insertions. They wore matching bow headpieces and carried old-fashioned Flemish designed bouquets of yellow daisies garlanded and edged with ivy. The honor attendant’s bouquet was enhanced with whisper of pearls and lace „ n ^fanslt; Mr. and Mrs. Roger DeYoung p;
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South Holland Tribune
South Holland, Illinois, US
Thu, Apr 13, 1967
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