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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1943
Page
2
Local residents share visits and travel updates with relatives in Chicago Heights Grand Rapids Mich and Riverdale. Families host dinners birthdays and receptions while service members return from duty and begin new assignments at Amherst West Point and Fort Riley.
Mrs Marion Wigren Sokol nee Sokol of 5122 Carmen Ave Chicago died Thursday Sept 23 in Swedish Covenant Hospital aged 22. Born Aug 2 1921 in Dolton she lived with her uncle Gustave Milhahn before marriage Aug 21. She worked as a receptionist at Wesley Memorial Hospital and belonged to Sandridge Methodist Church and the Degree of Honor. Funeral Monday 2:30 PM from Sandridge Methodist with Rev Frank T Palm. interment Oakland Cemetery. Bachmann Funeral Home in charge.
Funeral services for Mrs. Jessie Farrell of 13842 Dearborn Street Riverdale were held Tuesday at nine o clock from Jacobsma Funeral Home. She died Friday morning at her son Meredith’s home, having been ill since February. Born October 1 1883 in Elkhart Indiana she had lived in Riverdale twenty years and was active in the Dolton church community.
A Riverdale woman with ties to the Riverdale Woman’s Club and the Harmony Choral Club was mourned in a ceremony led by Rev. R. C. Shawl of Our Savior’s Church. She is survived by her aged mother Mrs. Mattie Leonard and two grandchildren. Interment followed at Cavalry Cemetery.
The wedding of Pvt. George Kleinfelder and Ruth Wallace took place at Wallace-Kleinfelder Immanuel church in Bolton. Rev. Phillip H. Bassler officiated as the couple, with Carl Reuter as escort, exchanged vows and left for Ontario California where the groom is stationed.
In a Riverdale ceremony at St Marys rectory on Saturday September 25 Loretta Kummerer daughter of Mr and Mrs Henry C Kummerer of 945 East 134th street became the bride of Ray L Meeder son of Earl Meeder of Chicago with Rev John N Weiler officiating The bride wore a white satin gown with a long train ʻia
Loretta wore a fitted bodice and fingertip veil with a seed pearl tiara. The groom's father served as best man and 150 guests attended a six o’clock dinner at St. Mary’s church hall. A Smoky Mountains honeymoon followed, with home at 10100 South Emerald Ave. Chicago.
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