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Bride's Parents ApprovesY1‘Has Sound Ideas' Says Father-In-LawiFlint. Mich., Feb. 22 CAP) 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-on the marriage shouldn’t work out all right.’’The couple. Cpl. Floyd H. Sim-onis, 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 train trip from San 'Francisco. Leaving the west coast a week ago, the two made eyesat each other across the aisle of o j coach for two days. Simonis cross-| ed the aisle on Wednesday, the two j became 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.r• tUh]M
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Carbondale Free Press
Carbondale, Illinois, US
Tue, Feb 22, 1949
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