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_ WILMINGTON, N. C., SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1942 SECOND SECTION
MRS. GOETHE WILKINS MARSH, JR_Of Fort Bragg, who before her mar
riage in the First Presbyterian church of Wilson last evening was Miss Margaret Mc
Intyre Daniel, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. N. Daniel of Wilson and Harbor Island.
Mr. Marsh, warrant officer, United States Army, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. G. W.
Marsh of Bath. The couple will make their home at Fort Bragg. The bride is well
known in this section, having spent the summers at the Daniel summer home on Har
bor Island for several years.
Formal Ball Set
Wednesday Night
For OCS Battery
Camp Davis Band Number
One Will Furnish Music
For The Event
A gala event has been planned
fr)' this coming Wednesday even
ii’g when a formal ball will be
Even at the Service club at Camp
Davis honoring the men of Bat
hay 41 of the Officer Candidate
school.
-Music will be furnished by Camp
Davis band Number One through
out the evening.
'-■'s. Lester Preston, chairman
llle Wilmington Defense Dance
C t|b has announced that a large
1 u'uhtr oi girls, members of the
' •'h. have been wmted to attend
‘,s event, and are requested to
' “t at the Woodrow Wilson hut
''' ’ ourfh and Princess streets
w cro special buses will be fur
u-'ued to take girls to the camp.
e buses will leave the hut prom
i .i ,al P- m. and girls are
,!‘f| ,0 be on time as the buses
' Hot wait for late-comers.
'-naperones are: Mrs. Preston,
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Miss Alma Hocutt and Mr. Blanchard
Married In Burgaw Baptist Church
Bride’s Brother, Rev. H. M.
Hocutt Of Asheville, Per
forms Ceremony
BURGAW, Nov. 14—The wedding
of Miss Alma Hocutt and Fulton
Blanchard was solemnized on Fri
day afternoon, November 6, at the
First Baptist church in Burgaw by
the Rev. H. M. Hocutt, of Asheville
brother of the bride.
The vows were spoken before an
improvised altar banked with Caro
lina long-leaf pine, ferns and south
ern smilax as a background for
white chrysanthemums in a tall
floor basket. Two seven-branched
candelabra bearing white lighted
tapers burned on either side of the
altar. The church was decorated
throughout with long-leaf pine and
srnilax. The bride’s aisle leading
to the altar was marked by tall
burning tapers in pew candle hold
ers entwined with southern smilax
The wedding music was played
by Miss Margaret Lee Betts and
selections rendered included “In
dian Love Call,” “Schubert’s Sere
nade,” “To a Wild Rose” and “Ava
Maria.” Lambert Turner, of Wil
mington, brother-in-law of the bride
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'ortli Carolina Clubwomen to Attend
forum In New York City This Week
^ls- Robinson Named By
President To Attend
Annual Session
JRV MRS. CHARLES DOAK
ras! seven North Carolina
omen will attend the Herald
; J-me Forum in New York this
Mrs. John D. Robinson, of
"o h^n W'^ a):tend, being appoint
Canki he President Mrs. P. R.
:1Ve ,la as her special representa
Gankin is remaining in
"dead with her son, Rob
ei vice ° Wiyi shortly report for
^ ' attending the Forum are
h
Mrs. James E. Lambeth, of Thom
asville, Mrs. Jesse F. Hayden, of
High Point; Mrs. Maude Bynor
Foye and Mrs. Stewart, of Kinston;
Mrs. R. Q. Roebuck, of Farmville,
and Mrs. Karl Bishopric, of Spray.
The Forum, which has long been
an annual event attended hy wom
en leaders from all over the coun
try, was not held last year on ac
count of unsettled conditions. How
ever, with women everywhere now
engaged in regular schedules and
programs of war work, it has been
possible to resume this worthwhile
educational institution.
Before leaving for New York. Mrs,
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Mary Malpass.
Thomas B, Wood
Married Here
Rev. W. C. Francis Of Winter
Park, Performs Wedding
Ceremony
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In a ceremony marked by sim
plicity and beauty Miss Mary Mal
pass, daughter of Mrs. G. C. Mal
pass, of Magnolia, was married to
Thomas B. Wood, son of Mrs. and
Mrs. W, L. Wood, Sr., Saturday.
November 7, at 8:30 o’clock.
The vows were spoken before the
F.ev. W. C. Francis, in the pres
ence of the immediate families
and intimate friends of the couple.
The parsonage was decorated
with ferns and chrysanthemumus.
The bride was attended by Mrs.
Cnarles West, Jr., sister of the
bridegroom as dame-of-honor.
Mr. Wood was attended by his
brother-in-law, Charles West, Jr..
a5: best man.
The bride wore for her wedding
a two-piece suit of British tweed,
with matching hat and navy acces
sories, her corsage was of pink
carnations.
I immediately after the marriage
a reception was held a,t the home
of Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Wood, Sr.,
in Winter Park, honoring the wed
ding party.
Miss Rebecca Rivenbark,
James Franklin Vinson, Jr.,
Will Marry On December 18
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Rivenbark of
Watha, announce the engagement
of their daughter, Rebecca, to
James Franklin Vinson, Jr., of
Goldsboro, route three.
The wedding will take place Fri
day. December 18. at the Watha
Methodist church.
Grace Methodist
Church Scene Of
Lovely Wedding
Miss Muriel Griffin O’Quinn
And Cecil G. Lee Married
Here Yesterday
Grace Methodist church was the
scene of the wedding of Miss Mu
riel Griffin 0’Quinn and Cecil
Goodwin Lee yesterday afternoon
at 5:30 o’clock.
The Rev. J. F. Herbert, pastor
of the church, was the officiating
minister. The church was decorat
ed with a background of southern
smilax. palms and candles burn
ing in candelabra. White chrysan
themums were also used in the dec
orations.
Prior to the ceremony and while
the vows were being spoken the
following program of nuptial music
was given by the church organist:
Evening Star (Wagner), Liebe
straum, (Liszt), Ave‘Maria, (Bach
Gounod), Estralitta (Ponce), Medi
tation (Massent) Berceuse (God
ard), Romance (Rubinstein), Be
cause (d’Hardelot), and To a Wild
Rose (MacDowell).
The bride was attended by Miss
Elizabeth Goldberg as maid - of
honor. while Miss Hazel Smith and
Miss Evelyn Kelly and Miss Janice
Brown of Rocky Mount, were
bridesmaids.
The bridegroom had as his best
man his brother, Jack Lee. Ushers
were Bob Boyd, Earl Biggs, Eddie
Hobbs, and Lehman Green.
The bride was given in marriage
by her brother, Nelson- O’Quinn.
She wore for her wedding a bridal
gown of white satin made with
heart-shaped neckline, long fitted
sleeves and yoke with insets of
lace. Her veil of bridal illusion
fell from a coronet of beads. She
carried a bridal bouquet of white
orchids and bovardia.
The bridesmaids were gowned in
frocks of white silk jersey tops
with skirts of net. They were made
on long torso lines with V neck
line and bracelet length sleeves.
They carried bouquets of yellow
chrysanthemums and wore match
ing clusters of flowers in their
hair. Miss Goldberg, maid-of
honor, carried bronze chrysanthe
mums.
A reception was held immediate
ly following the ceremony at the
home of Mrs. Aaron Goldberg.
Later in the evening the couple
left for a wedding trip north and
upon their return will make their
| home on South VanBuren street.
Sunset Park. Mrs. Lee. wore for
traveling a two-piece blue wool
suit wjth brown accessories and a
corsage of orchids.
The bride has made her home
in Wilmington for the past year
coming here from Rocky Mount
her former home. Mr. Lee is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Lee of
Wilmington.
MRS. JOHN W. LEWIS, JR. — Formerly Miss Jane
Anderson Pendleton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dudley F.
Pendleton of Wilmington, whose marriage took place at
the First Baptist church on November 4. Mr. Lewis is
the son of Mrs. Lurline D. Lewis of Hickory.
MRS. CHARLES LEE CRAVER, JR. — The former
Miss Homer Louise Wysong, daughter of Mrs. Homer C.
Wysong and the late Dr. Wysong of Carolina Beach, whose
marriage took place November 2 in Conway, S. C. Mr. Crav
er is the son of Charles Lee Craver of Winston-Salem and
Mrs. Sally Craver of Carolina Beach.
Banquet Given
By N. C. Sorosis
At Local Club
Mrs. Henry Highsmith Of Ra
leigh, State Officer, Is
Guest Speaker
The North Carolina Sorosis club
house was very effectively deco
rated with long leaf pine, smilax,
red, white and blue candles and
white chrysanthemums for the
banquet held this past week.
Rev. Andrew J. Howell opened
the short business meeting held
prior to the banquet with the club
collect and Glasgow Hicks giving
the invocation.
Several vocal selections were
given by the Sorosis Chorus dur
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Miss Lois Jane Bussells Weds
Ensign Davis Carroll Herring
Ceremony Held Tuesday In
Trinity Methodist Church
In Southport
Miss Lois Jane Bussells of South
port, became the bride of Ensign
Davis Carroll Herring of Fayette
ville last Tuesday evening at 7
o’clock in a beautiful ceremony at
Trinity Methodist'church in South
port.
Dr. Owen F. Herring of Durham
officiated, assisted By Rev. R. S.
Harrison pastor of the bride. The
vows were spoken before a tower
ing background of pine boughs and
fern. Baskets of white ciirysanthe
mums and seven branched cande
labra were used on each side of
the chancel.
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MRS. FRANK FORD COOK—Who prior to her marriage at St. Martin’s Episco
pal church in Charlotte November 5 was Miss Caroline White Cooper, daughter of
Mrs. Ann White Cooper of Charlotte and a granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. B.
Cooper of Wilmington. Captain and Mrs. Cook will reside in Charlotte where he is
now stationed at the Quartermaster Depot.
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Pearl Gillette
Will Marry Army
Officer Tonight
Invitations Issued In City To
Wedding In Lorton,
Virginia
The wedding of Miss Rena Pearl
Gillette, daughter of Colonel and
Mrs. George W. Gillette will take
place tonight at the Pohick Epis
copal church. Lorton, Va., to Cap
tain John Alfred Miller.
Invitations issued in Wilmington
read as follows:
Colonel and Mrs. George William
• ■ Gillette
request the honour of your
presence
at the marriage of their daughter
Rena Pearl
to
John Alfred Miller
Captain. United States Army
on Sunday the fifteenth of
November
Nineteen hundred and forty-twQ
at eight o’clock in the evening
Pohick Episcopal Church
Lorton, Virginia
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Mrs. J. R. Jackson,
Recent Bride, Feted
Mrs. J. W. Edwards entertained
a few friends on Wednesday even
ing at a miscellaneous shower hon
oring Mrs. J. R. Jacksorj who be
fore her marriage on October 19,
was Miss Daisy Catherine Wells.
The home was decorated for the
occasion with pink gladioli -and
chrysanthemums carrying out the
color note of pink and white. Mrs.
Jackson was presented a gift in
her chosen pattern of crystal by
the hostess and showered with a
number of gifts.
Bingo was played during the
evening followed by a refreshment
course.
Miss Mendenhall
Becomes Bride of
B. D. Applewhite
Vows Spoken At Home Of
Bride’s Mother In Greens
boro, November 8
GREENSBORO, Nov. 14.—In the
intimacy of home with kinspeople
and close friends attending, Miss
Marjorie Stratford Mendenhall was
united in marriage with Blake
Deans Applewhite. Wilmington, on
Sunday afternoon, November 8.
Rev. R. Murphy Williams, pastor
of Presbyterian Church of the Cov
enant, heard the vows at 5 o’clock
at 500 Lake drive, residence of the
bride’s mother, Mrs. Percy Al
bright Mendenhall, and Mr. nad
Mrs. James D. LeGwin, sister and
brother-in-law of the bride, who
had a buffet supper afterward for
the 50 wedding guests.
The bride wore a handsome cos
tume ensemble of taupe brown
woolen, the jacket fastening over
an acquamarine top which was
caught by a gold pin repeating the
effect of her hat ornament. The
hat to match the dress was trim
med with the acquamarine mater
ials which made the yoke. Pinned
to her squirrel muff of the same
taupe brown was a corsage of ex
quisite yellow orchids. For travel
she added a brown seal coat.
The vows were spoken before the
living room mantel where white
tapers burned in a pair of seven
branched candelabra against a
bank of palms.
The bride’s mother wore an af
ternoon dress of victory blue crepe
with jewel studded belt and a cor
sage of pink roses. Mrs. LeGwin
was in steel gray crepe scattered
with silver nail heads and had a
corsage of red roses and garde
nias. Miss Betsy Battle Applewhite,
Wilmington, teen-age daughter of
the bridegroom, wore a jeune fille
frock of Victory blue velveteen and
had fresh pink flowers in her hair.
In the dining room the buffet
table was lighted by white candles
in silver and centered by a silver
bowl of white roses, snapdragons,
carnations and pompons.
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Mrs. Everett, Division President,
Wins Trophy at UDC General Meet
Many Awards Won By State
Chapters At Federation
In St. Louis
By MRS. C. H. SHIPP
The North Carolina division. U.
D. C., with pardonable pride, an
nounces that Mrs. R. O. Everett,
divison president, broke an all time
record for the state, at the gen
eral convention held in St. Louis,
Mo., last week when she won the
Frederick trophy for the second
successive year in her term of
office. This trophy Is awarded
the division president making the
best and most concise division re
port.
In other years this much cov
eted honor has gone one time to
Mrs. Waite: Woodard. Mrs. Glenn
Long, and Mrs. L. E. Fisher, all
former division presidents.
The Craig medal, given for
| transferring the most Children of
Confederacy members to an adult
chapter was won by the Durham
children’s chapter, Mrs. C. H.
Shipp, leader. Honorable mention
for the Craig medal went to the
Frances Foy chapter of Pollocks
ville. As a whole. North Carolina
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