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Garden wedding bears elegant dune setting for Ruth Johnson
In a dune side garden at 220 Elsmere Place, Ruth Roty and Stewart Courtney Johnson wed at 8:30 p.m. The ceremony featured Rev. Pierre Bernard Hill, a palm and fern altar, and lilies of the valley. Attendants included Meredith Davis and Martha Roby, with James Walker Haynture as best man. The bride wore Chantilly lace with a train. bridesmaids in pink silk. Guests later joined a long table reception with organ and violin music. The couple departed for two weeks in Havana after sailing from New Orleans.
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John
Teagle
Elsmere Place
Sturday
Ruth Roty
Stewart Courtney Johnson
H. GC. McJohnson
Tate
Johnson
Pierre Bernard Hill
Vinla Ralim
Merry Brendel
Lohengrin
Meredith Davis
Mrs. Wilson
James Walker Haynture
Travis Bailey
Wiliam Duitt
Houston
John Vincent Rowan
Kelis G. Baker
Eugene P. McMahon
Tem
Goad
Creston A. King
Betsy Bwitg
Barbara Church
Alice Lambs
Mary
Katherine Wetto
Doris Callan
Joelle White
Karo- Jen Pardue
Molly Bond Hayes
Sara Elisabeth Alexander
Helen Watlington
Jimmie Dick Ansley
James Walker Haymore
Kennedy A. Milburn
Earl
Chumney
New Orleans
Havana
Park Avenue
Sarah Elizabeth Guiver
J. W. Cuiver
Louis Malcolm Levy
Jessie B. Levy
New Griesns
First Presbyterian Church
W. A. McLeod
Pierre Bernard Hill Besore
James Ben. Shaw
J. D. Miller
Cadman
Mesdames Shaw
Miller
Frederick King
Orbia Blanton
Angus McLean
W.O. Miler
Calvin Levy
Muriel Forbes
Ann Margaret Montgomery
Mesdames W. ©. Miller
Kathryn Roberts
Alene Condon Miller
James Hen Shaw Jr