Party Series
Climaxes With
Events This Week
The pre-nuptial party series
honoring Miss G lends Ivle here
came to a close this week with
several events honoring the be
trothed coil-pie, wedding party and
members of the family. Miss Ivle
married to Bill Brandon Tues
day evening
Mrs. J W Davidson entertained
at (the rehearsal party Monday
night at her home, with members
of the wedding party, relatives
and a few invited guests.
The home was decorated hi the
Christmas motif, with a wreath of
greens on the front door, and poin
settias and Christmas candles used
elsewhere
Lime punch, containing fruit
chips was served along with bridal
cake squares, fruit cake, nuts and
rmnts.
On this occasion Miss Ivel pre
sented Wr attendants with identi
cal strands of pearls. She also pre
sented the soloists with gifts. The
bridegroom presented his grooms
men with maroon ties which they
wore If the wedding.
On Monday evening the parents
of the bride, Mr. and Mrs. Peyton
G. Ivie honored the family of the
Lutheran Christmas
Service Be Today
The Christmas Service will be
held at St. Andrew's LuthenMi
Church In Andrews on Christmas
Eve Dec 24, at 7:30 p m.
Special music will be provided
I by the children's choir.
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bridegroom at dinner at the Henry
House
Luncheon for the wedding party
was held Monday at the New Regal
Hotel with Mrs. S. C Burgees and
daughter. Kay as hostesses. The
table was centered with a large
low arrangement of white asters
| and a trail of green fern nan the
| length of the table. Guests Includ
ed the maid and matron of honor.
I bridesmaids, usher-groomsmen,
soloists, organist, the minister, end
parents of the bride and bride
groom.
A bridesmaids' breakfast was held
Sunday morning at the New Regal
Hotel with Mrs. BUI Costello as
hostess The table waa decorated aa
a Christmas package with red rib
bon and a miniature Christmas
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tree and mistletoe. Place cards
contained fortunes tucked inside a
bell.
The 14 guests included the bride,
her mother, her attendants, the
mother of the bridegroom, and a
few friends. ?
Students To
Lead Methodist
Service Sunday
Sunday December 27, will be
Student Recognition Day at the
First Methodist Church.
College students who are home
for the holidays will be Id charge
ot the Evening Service, leading
the responses, the prayers and giv
ing talks on the subject ot "Re
ligion in the Life of a Student."
The Youth Fellowship Choir will
sing the Anthem.
Following the Evening Service
the Commission on Education, Mrs.
iH Bueck, chairman, and the W. S.
C. S., Miss AdeHa Meroney, presi
dent, will honor the students with
a reception in the Church dining
room.
The following students will par
ticipate in the Service: Misses
Margaret Akin, Martha Porter
Axley, -Mary Frances Axley, Bar
bara Adams, Mr. Gene Bates and
Dick Ketner.
The public is invited.
BOBBIE CARROL HOME
Little Bobble Carrol is improving
at her home now after being a
patient at Petrle Hospital. She Is
In the third grade.
IN MEMORIAM
In loving memory of our dad R.
L. Donley, who passed away Dec.
14, 1948.
Geneva and Blaine Donley
24-ltp. I
Glenda Ivie Weds Brandon
Jr. Choir Carols
To Shut-Ins
Wednesday evening the Junior
Choir of the First Methodist
CShurch dressed in their robes went
through* the Community to various
homes Of shut-ins to sing the tra
ditional Christmas carols. Mrs.
Jimmy Howse,~the choir director,
and pastor went with the boys and
girls, and afterwards, hot chocolate
awaited them at the parsonage.
Suit Club Has
Christmas Party
The Suit Home Demonstration
Club held its annual Christmas
meeting at the home of Mrs. R. L.
Keenum on Tuesday, December 8.
An important item of business
of the club was the election of of
ficers: Mrs. Gay Hawkins, Presi
dent; Mrs. R. L. Keenum, Vice
president; Mrs. Dallas McKown.
Secretary; and Mrs. J. F. Wood,
Treasurer.
Miss Edna Bishop gave an inter
esting presentation of Christmas
ideas, and Mrs. Dallas McKown
told briefly about her recent trip
to the United Nations.
In spite of dry weather, the
1953 United States com crop was
5 per cent above average.
"Couple United In
Candlelight Rites
In an 8 p m candlelight cere
mony Tuesday, Dec. 22, Miss
Glenda Ivie became the bride of
John Will tain Brandon at the Fir*
Baptist Church here.
The bride Is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Peyton G. Ivie and the
bridegroom ?? the eon of iMr and
Mrs W ft. Brandon, all of Murphy.
I The Rev J Alton Morris of
ficiated using the double ring cere
mony.
The church was decorated with
native greenery and basket ar
rangements of white gladioli with
a pyramid of potnsettias, Inter
spersed wih greenery, as the cen
tral arrangement. White tapers
were used in seven-branched can
delabra. and white candles were in
all the windows and at the baptis
try.
The bride, given in marriage by
) her faher, was attended by Miss
Billie Jane Rush as maid of honor
and by Mrs. W. A. Sherrill, Jr.
(Sara Posey) as matron of honor.
Bridesmaids were Misses Kay
Burgess, Shirley Bates, Barbara
Rhoads and Jean Reed.
"The bridegroom's father was
best man and usher-groomsmen
were Steve Crawford, Bobby Bol
ing. Larry Posey, W. A. Sherrill,
Jr., Glenn Patton and Horry Sword
Mrs. J. W. Davidson was organ
ist for the wedding and soloists
were Miss Susie Miller, who sang
"The Lord's Prayer" and Mrs. Dan
Hawk <Rosalind Staloup), who sang
Grieg's "I Love Thee".
Just before the bride entered the
bridegroom sang "Because".
The bride wore a floor length
gown of Chantilly lace fashioned
wtth a fitted bodice, long sleeves
ending in cala points, and a full
gathered skirt worn over a hoop. |
The neckline featured a yoke of
illusion forming a sweetheart
neckline encrusted with seed
pearls. She wore a single strand of
pearls, gift of the bridegroom.
Her veil of illusion, tapering
from fingertip to chapel length,
was attached to a Juliet cap of Il
lusion and lace and embroidered
with seed pearls. She carried a
white Bible, gift from the Young
Woman's Auxiliary of the Firrt
Baptist Church, topped with a
white orchid showered with satin
ribbon streamers and stephamotis.
Susanne Ivie. sister of the bride,
was flower girl and she wore a
white net over taffeta floor length
frock fashioned like that of the
bride, with a yoke of illusion fram
ed by a sweetheart neckline. She
carried a basket of rose petals.
The 12 honorary bridesmaids
wore evening dresses and identical
I corsages. Tl*y included Misses
j Carolyn Alexander, Jo Garrett.
Sally Morris, Judy Nichols, Alma
Stiles, Annie Ruth Stiles, Anne
| Shields, and Barbara Swalm of
1 Murphy; Miss Carol Sue Vaught of
Chattanooga, Teim.; and Mrs. Bub
Brown (Betty Jean Moore), Mrs.
Clyde Duvall (Mary Sue Brandon), |
sister of the bridegroom; and Mrs.
Glenn Patton, also of Murphy.
The honor attendants wore
Christmas red dremes of taffeta
and tulle, fashioned strapless with
stoles of tune. The fuU skirts of
tulle stood out over the taffeta^
They carried cascade bouquets of
beitertimes pink roses.
The bridesmaids wore dresses of
Christmas green designed like
those of the honor attendants and
carreid cascades of red roses.
For her daughter's wedding Mrs.
Ivie wore, a waltz length gown of
blue Allison lace studded with
rhinestanes) She wore blue satin
slippers and long white kid gloves.
Her corsage was a lavender orchid.
The mother of the bridegroom
wore a tea dress of lavender lace
with mauve accessories, and -with a
lavender orchid.
Mrs Grler of Atlanta, G?..
grandmother of the bride, wore
a tee frock of black and white
with white acceqsorlei and a white
corsage.
Following the ceremony the par
ents of (he bride entertained at a
reception at their home on Valley
River Ave. for wedding guesta.
The bride's table was overlaid
In white satin and draped with
net caught up in garland fashion
with orange blossoms in the bows
Which were white satin and silver.
The three tiered wedding aake
centering the table was topped
with large wedding bells into
which orange blossoms were tuck
ed. The cake waa flanked by five
branched silver candlelabra with
epergniettes holding orange blos
soms and silver grapes.
The seven-branched candelabra
flanked the table, and pedestals
holding silver candelabra wan on
each side at the back. Silvered Ivy
and other foliage wan
where throughout the
ing out a silver color motif
Glenn fife furnished piano
music, consisting mostly of Christ
MRS. JOHN WILLIAM BRANDON
The former Mlas Glen da Ivle
mas carols, during the reception.
Following the reception the
oouple left on a short wedding trip,
the bride wearing a powder blue
suit with rose hat, blouse and
gloves, and navy pumps and bag.
She wore the orchid from* her
Bible.
On return from the wedding trip
the bridegroom will return to Fort
Eustis, Va, where tie is stationed
with the U. S. Army, and the bride
will be at the home of her parents
here.
Hvt bridegroom is a graduate of
Murphy High School and attended
Young Harris College.
The bride, a senior at Murphy
High School, will graduate in June,
after which she plans to join her
husband.
Out of town guests at the wed
ding included Mrs. Lona Grier,
maternal grandmother of the bride.
Mrs. E. T. Barnes, sister of the
bride's father and Mr. and Mrs. Ed
Eden, cousins of the bride's moth
I er, all of Atlanta; Mr. and Mrs. T.
C. Christian, paternal aunt of the
bride, of Columbus Ga.; Mr. and
j Mrs. John I vie, paternal uncle of
, the bride, of Commerce, Ga.; Mr.
; and Mrs. P. R. Ivie, paternal grand
parents of th^ bride, of Cornelia,
| Ga.; Mr. And jiflt E. D. Grier,
imaetrnal grandfather of the bride
of Cornelia. Ga.; Mrs. Julia Max
-well, grfeat Sunt of the bride, of
Baldwin, Ga.; Mr. and Mrs. George
Solesbee d* Canton, Ga.; Mr. and
I Mrs. Ben Vaugbt, ??an Jr. and
Carol Sue Vaught and Misses Bob
bie TtHtn?i?and Carol Keys, all of
| Chattanooga, Tenn.
| Also Mr. and. Mr*. Russell Ivie
and twin eons, Edgar and Russell,
of Clayton", Ga., 'Cousins of the
| bride's father; and Mrs. Sharon
| Elkios of Dalton, Ga., cousin of the
bride.
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