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Society Guests Echo East Coast Visits and Weddings
Philadelphia visitor Mrs. Felix McManus and her sons stay with Mr. McManus family as relatives mingle at luncheons and bridge events. Catherine Leach visits Beaumont before returning to Texas. A wedding band of Mrs Murphy and Don Ryan takes place at St. Raymond’s Church. Mary Callender and Thomas Donovan plan Naperville nuptials with Governor Donovan officiating. A Burr-Oakers cottage group heads home after a DuPage retreat.
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Felix McManus
Philadelphia
Bobby
Peter
George Sehring
Old Prison
Earl Kaffer
Harry Kelly
Harry P. Keeley
William Hummel
Edward Sharpe
Jack Davis
Thomas Meers
Margaret Brennan
McManus
Clarence Connell
Channahon
Bride Bridge
Helen Meers
Sedgely Farm
Campbell Street
Helen Murphy
Frank Murphys
Don Ryan
Lauretta M. Ryan
Oak Park
Francis Bellerive
St. Raymond’s Church
Charles W. Crane
Chicago
Miss Murphy
James Allan Ward
Claver Ryan
James Murphy
Woodruff Hotel
NASA
Mary Callender
W. D. Callender
Naperville
Thomas J. Donovan
S. Center Street
St. Peter and Paul’s Church
Mescher
Miss Callender
Joan
Ann
Dorothy Ruttle
Priscilla Sims
Zelorie Haight
Donovan
James
Francis Dunn
Robert Philbin
John Limacher
Hubert Zalar
Joliet
Henry Horner
Burr-Oakers
the DuPage
Ruth Adams
June Bolstad
Jane Carlin
Marjorie Benson
Arlyn Killeen
Billie Butler
Harriet Shackleton
Isabelle Grant
Betty Kern
Elsie Alice Downing
Dorothy Mortvedt
Eileen Goodson
Neva Arnold
Mary Louise Pearce
Franklin Bush