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MRS. ROBERT CHARLES GORDON JR.
(Melanie Anne Ramey)
Ramey-Gordon Couple
Exchange Marriage Vows
Melanie Anne Ramey and
Robert Charles Gordon Jr. were
united in marriage October 1 at
3 p.m. at Saint Andrews United
Methodist Church in Charlotte.
Rev. R.E. Boggan Jr. of-
ficiated. Mrs. Edna Mae Fisher,
organist, presented a program of
wedding music.
The bride is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Burris Endel
Ramey of 411 Hawthorne Road,
Kings Mountain. She is a
graduate of Lexington High
School and Central Piedmont
Community College and is
employed as executive secretary
with the Mid-South Department
of NCNB in Charlotte. She is the
granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Shealy of Durham and
Mrs. E.L. Ramey of Inman, S.C.
The groom is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Charles Gor-
on of Dunwoody, Ga. He is a
aduate of East Forsythe High
School and Appalachian State
niversity and is employed as a
Pacific Corporation. He is the
grandson of Mrs. Ralph Gordon
of Greensboro.
Burris Ramey gave his
daughter in marriage. She wore
her mother’s wedding gown of
imported Chantilly lace and tulle
sales representative with Georgia
over bridal satin. The tight fit-
ting bodice was fashioned with
portrait neckline and long
sleeves ending in calla points at
the wrists. The skirt, appliqued
with lace medallions ended in a
cathedral train. Her veil of im-
ported tulle was attached to a
coronet of flowers and pearls.
She carried a cascade of pink
roses centered with gardenias
and bridal greenery. She also
wore the pearls that her father
had given to her mother on their
wedding day. ff
She chose her sister, Miss
Faye Ramey, as maid of honor.
Bridesmaids were Mrs. Sheila
Y okeley, the bride’s sister, from
Charlotte, Miss Beth Gordon,
the groom’s sister from
Greensboro, and Miss Debra
White of Charlotte. Honorary
bridesmaids were Mrs. E.C.
(Bonnie Lynn) Taylor, the
groom’s sister from Durham, and
Mrs. Buddy (Lisa) Ramey, the
bride’s sister-in-law from Kings
Mountain.
The groom’s father was best
man. Ushers were Dennis
Johnson“ of ‘Pineville; Buddy
Ramey, the bride’s brother, from
Kings Mountain, and Steve Ken-
nerly and Milan Bunsick, both of
Knoxville, Tn.
The bride’s parents hosted the
wedding reception at Barley and
Rye.
Following a Caribbean cruise,
the couple will live in Charlotte.
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Martha Jane Mauney, recent
bride of Steve Gladden, was
honored prior to her marriage at
a number of luncheons and din-
ners.
A bridesmaids luncheon was
given on September 22 at
Gaston Country Club with Mrs.
Ann Colvin Winters as hostess.
Guests were seated at a
beautifully appointed table,
centered with an arrangement of
pink flowers.
The bride took this occasion
to present her attendants with
gifts. The hostess remembered
the bride with a gift of silver.
Mrs. Winters was matron of
honor in the wedding.
Special guests included Mrs.
William Kemp Mauney, mother
of the bride, Mrs. Furman
Eugene Gladden, the groom’s
mother, and Mrs. David Colvin,
mother of the hostess.
Mr. and Mrs. Furman Eugene
Gladden gave the rehearsal din-
ner honoring Miss Mauney and
their son, whose wedding took
place Saturday evening at 7
o’clock in Saint Matthews
Lutheran Church.
Over 60 guests attended the
dinner which was held in the
fellowship hall of Resurrection
Lutheran Church. The tables
were covered in white, and the
main table held a large arrange-
ment of pink snapdragons, car-
nations and bridal flowers. Tall
white tapers based with tendrils
of ivy and pink carnations
centered the other table.
A delicious dinner was served
after which toasts were made to
the bridal couple.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Byers
Jackson and Mrs. Joseph Wilson
Crawford entertained at a
beautifully appointed wedding
breakfast honoring the couple at
12:30, Saturday, September 24.
The affair was held at Gaston
Country Club.
The round tables were
covered with delphinum blue
cloths and centered with tall ar-
Bride-Elect
Is Honored
Miss Patricia Lou Herndon,
whose marriage to. Claude - C.-
Coleman, 11Tof Atlanta, Georgia
will take place on October 8 at
St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church,
was honored at a Barbecue at
the home of Bobby Suber, 401
Phifer Road, Kings Mountain.
Entertaining with Mr. Suber
were Mr. and Mrs. Carl Finger,
Mr. and Mrs. Joe A. Neisler, Jr.,
Mr. and Mrs. George
Thomasson, and Mr. and Mrs.
Bob Southwell.
Fifty guests gathered around
the pool and were invited to a
buffet table decorated with a
straw basket of apples, greenery,
and yellow mums and lighted
with two antique lanterns.
Home-cooked, hickory smoked
barbecue with barbecue beans,
slaw, rolls, potato chips, and
pickles were served. Guests were
seated around tables covered
with red cloths on which brass
lanterns had been placed. The
bride and groom’s places were
marked by a token in keeping
with the Barbecue theme. The
honoree was also presented a gift
by the hosts and hostesses. A bir-
thday cake in celebration of the
birthday of the bride’s father
James E. Herndon, Jr. com-
pleted the meal.
Out of town guests attending
were Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth
Voelker, Marietta, Georgia; Jef-
frey Timmons and Miss Leslie
Rainer, Atlanta, Georgia; Miss
Mary Kathlynn Mauney,
Raleigh, N.C.; Mr. and Mrs.
Charles McDuff Wallace,
Winston Salem, N.C.; Mrs. Gary
Ball, Lenoir, N.C.; Miss Sandra
Garrison and Mr. Eugene Mat-
thews, Gastonia, N.C. and Miss
Katherine Thomas, Daniel W.
Davis III, and Ludlow Hodges
111, all of Charlotte.
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Nights Day
rangements of silk flowers in
shades of pink to red, arranged
in silver containers. The head
table where the wedding party
was seated held a mass central
arrangement placed on a silver
plateau and flanked by four
smaller arrangements. Hand-
made placecards marked the
guests’ places.
The Rev. Harwood T. Smith
asked the blessing and after the
breakfast, toasts were made to
the bridal couple.
The host’s gift to the honorees
was a silver wedding bell trivet.
Guests included the wedding
party, family and out of town
guests.
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Immediately following the
wedding of Miss Mauney and
Mr. Gladden, the bride’s parents,
Mr. and Mrs. William Kemp
Mauney, hosted the wedding
reception at the Holiday Inn in
Kings Mountain.
The party rooms were
decorated with arrangements of
pink anthirium, Gerbers daisies,
pink carnations, gypsophilia and
bridal ferns. The four-tier cake
which was encircled with
greenery and wedding flowers,
held bridal figurines outlined
with bride’s roses and poufs of
net. Candelabra with pink tapers
and arrangements of pink to red
flowers were used in the recep-
tion rooms.
The bride’s table held a floor-
length white cloth and was
centered with a large arrange-
ment of bridal flowers arranged
in a silver wine cooler. A cocktail
buffet was served. Dancing was
enjoyed throughout the evening
with music by The Legend.
Out of town guests attending
the wedding were Mrs. John
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