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AFTER FOUR DAYS ON TRAINMarine Corporal Floyd H. Simonis kisses his bride at Council Bluffs, Iowa. He and Mary Ella Taunt of Flint, Mich., were total strangers when they boarded a train at San Francisco Monday and sat down across the aisle from(ASSOCeach other. Simonis admitted that he didn't cross the aisle until Wednesday, but by Thursday night they got off the train to be married. They went on today to visit the bride’s parents in Flint and the corporal’s mother in Milwaukee.IATE1) PRESS WIREPHOTO)Bride's Parents Approve‘Has Sound Ideas' Says Father-In-LawtFlint, Mich., Feb. 22 (AP The parents of a 19-year-old Flint girl got a first-hand report of her whirlwind train romance with a Marine corporal.They concluded “there’s no reas-■ron the marriage shouldn’t work outall right.’’The couple, Cpl. Floyd H. Simonis, 23, and the former Miss Mary Ella Taunt, are spending a few days with the bride’s parents, Mr.and Mrs. John C. Taunt.They arrived here Sunday after the eventual tiain trip from San ’Francisco. Leaving the west coast a week ago, the two made £yesat each other across the aisle of a coach for two days. Simonis crossed the aisle on Wednesday, the twobecame better acquainted and were married Friday in Council Bluffs,Iowa.“We’ve became pretty well acquainted with the boy,” said the bride’s father, an insurance agent. He’s a clean-cut. straight-thinking fellow. He has ideas for the future that look good to me.”Simmons is stationed at Moffett Field. Calif. But first, he added, he wants to take Mary Ellen to visit his mother, Mrs. Pauline Simonis. in Milwaukee.
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Carbondale Free Press
Carbondale, Illinois, US
Tue, Feb 22, 1949
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