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TWO MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Sunday, July 27, 1952 Episcopal Church Scene MacJVhirter-Meadows Rites The wedding of Miss Verna Jean Meadows and Donald E. Mac Whirter Jr., was an event of July 20 at St. Marks Episcopal church. The double ring ceremony was attended by over 100 guests. The Rev. J. M. B. Gill peformed the rites at 2 o'clock in the afternoon Mrs. Jerome McDougall of Central Point, sister of the bride, was matron of honor. Bridesmaids were the Misses Carolyn Shangle, Carolyn Cole man, and Bonnie Dallaire, all of Medford; and Pat MacWhirter, sister of the bridegroom, Santa Rosa, Calif. Linda Kunzman, Central Point, was flower girl. Arthur Ostrander, Ashland, served as best man. Ushers were Dick Reedy, Ashland; James Pond, Medford; and Herman Ghea and Jason Wilson, both Ashland. The bride is a daughter of W. Kenneth Meadows, Medford, and the bridegroom's parents are Mr. and Mrs. Donald E. Mac Whirter of Santa Rosa. The bride's gown was of egg- Roseburg Ceremony Weds Nancy Adams To Russell Torbeck Miss Nancy Lee Adams be came the bride of Russell F. Tor beck in a double ring ceremony performed by the Rev. V. Klien feldt at First Christian church, Roseburg, July 5. The bride is the daughter of Mrs. Effie W. Adams, 420 South Grape street, and the bride groom's parents are Mr. and Mrs. Fred Torbeck, Corvallis, Ore. The' bride wore a lavender check suit with white accessor ies, and she carried a white or chid on a white prayer book Mrs. Charles E. Jones, Rose burg, sister of the bride, acted as matron of honor. She chose a suit of navy blue with white ac cessories, and her flowers were sweet peas. Best man for the wedding ceremony was Kenneth C. Mol- ner, Roseburg. After the wedding the couple took a wedding trip to the coast, and are now at home in Rose burg where Mr. Torbeck is em ployed by the State highway de partment as an engineer s aid The bride is now employed at Mercy hospital, triere. She grad uated from Medford High school In the class of 1950 and then at tended Southern Oregon college. Couple Wed at Reno To Live at Gold Hill Mr. and Mrs. Evert A. Jennings, Ashland, announce the marriage of their daughter, Miss Donna Lee Jennings, to Clayton J. Netzel, Gold Hill. The rites took place July 21 at 2:30 o'clock in the afternoon at Reno, Nev. The service was read by the Rev. Ralph A. Poole and the double ring rites were used. Mr. and Mrs. Jerry A. Giesler, Ash land, attended the couple. The bridegroom is a son of Mr. and Mrs. T.'J. Netzel, Gold Hill. He returned recently after serving for 3Vi years in the Army and was stationed in Ja pan and Korea. He now is employed at the Tolo Lumber company and the couple will live in Gold Hill until fall when they will move to Ashand. The bride will be a senior at Ashland high school. Medford Girls Attend University Music School Miss Evelyn Jones, 818 Peach street, and Miss Nancy Walsted Medford, attended the high school music summer session at the University of Oregon which ended July 19. Both girls play the violin, and were members of the orchestra which played a concert at the end of the three week session. They had won scholarships to the school by playing in the district contest. Miss Jones rep resenting Medford High school, and Miss Walsted being a rep resentative of the junior high school here. More than two hundred high school students from all parts of the state and as far east as Illi nois were, present at the music school. Campus dormitories and recreational facilities were open ed to the musicians?" and oper ettas presented by the students were "Down in the Valley" and "Trial by Jury." Canton Auxiliary Attend Picnic The Siskiyou canton and aux iliary. Patriarchs Militant, met last Sunday with the Grants Pass canton and auxiliary for a picnic in the Grants Pass city park. Twenty persons from Med ford attended. shell satin with hoop skirt and train with lace inserts. A seed pearl headpiece held her tulle veil and she carried a shower bouquet of stephanotis centered with an orchid. Mrs. McDougall wore a coral organdy gown in colonial de sign and her flowers were pastel blue shasta daisies. She also wore a blue daisy headpiece. The bridesmaids' gowns matched Mrs. McDougall's gown in design. Miss Shangle wore green, Miss Coleman, lavendar. Miss Dallaire, pastel blue, and Miss MacWhirter, pastel pink. They carried daisies in pastel hues and white with matching headpieces. The flower girl's gown of white organdy was similar to the others and she carried a basket filled with white shasta daisies. The church was decorated with white gladiolus, white shasta daisies, fern and the pew ends were marked with pastel daisies. Mrs. E. C. Conrad fur nished the wedding music. The reception was held in the parish house. Mrs. Frank Meadows, aunt of the bride, and Mrs. Frank Bernheisel, cut the wedding cake. Mrs. Roy Smith served punch and Miss -Joan Russell had charge of the guest book. The bride has lived in Med ford her entire life and was graduated from Medford high school. The bridegroom is an Ashland high school graduate and now is a student at Santa Rosa Junior college. The couple will live after August 1 at Santa Rosa. They are making a wedding trip to California coastal towns. August Wedding Rites Planned for Phoenix Girl and Navy Man Mr. and Mrs'. Frank M. Lovett, Phoenix, recently announced the engagement and forthcoming marriage of their daughter, Miss Frances Maxine Lovett, to Wil liam H. Pierce. The bridegroom elect is stationed with the Navy at Long Beach, Calif. The announcement was made during a Hawaiian dinner served by the bride's parents at their home. Miss Lovett is a 1949 Phoenix hieh school graduate and now is employed at Sacramento, Cam., by the California state depart ment of architecture. Her nance recently returned from 19 months in Japanese and Korean waters on board the USS Ashtabula. Their wedding date is set for mid-August. They plan a wed ding trip to Mexico and then will live at Long Beach. tlW I if Tf 3 " Ouf-of-Town Guests Attend Club Picnic Sixty persons attended the July picnic for Past Noble Grands club of the Olive Rebe kah lodge and families. The event was at the W. H. Dyer home. Special guests included Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Cole, Denver, Colo., houseguests of Mr. Cole's sister and husband, the A. H. Hansens., Another guest was a member 'of the lodge and club now living in Portland, Mrs. Bryan Newton. She was visiting her mother, Mrs. Rosa Young, and Lieutenant Colonel Ord Reed and Mrs. Reed, who re cently returned to the states from Tokyo, Japan, and who will be stationed at Atterbury, Ind. Mrs. Reed is Mrs. Newton's sister. Mrs. Clara Bailey, Mrs. Dyer's sister, also was present as a guest. A picnic committee included Mrs. S. H. Gregory, Mrs. Dana Bowers, Mrs. Arthur Scarseth and Mrs. Minnie Bryant. The August picnic will be at the E. W. Pease home, 130 Ver nada olace. August 10 at 6:30 p.m. 4 Mistletoe Club Holds Covered Dish Luncheon The Mistletoe club of the Royal Neighbors of America met for a covered dish luncheon Wednesday at the home of Mrs. Carl Pearson. Mrs. Thelma Tay lor, a sister of Mrs. Blaine Shir ley, was a guest. Other guests also attended? The next regular meeting will be held at the Girls Community club and a dessert luncheon will be served. Wednesday's committee was Mrs. Pearson, Mrs. Randy Hug-j dal and Mrs. Flora Harper. . Mrs. Donald E. MacWhirler Jr. (above), was MissVerna Jean Meadows before her marriage July 20. She is a daughter of W, Kenneth Meadows, 1036 Crater Lake avenue, and her bridegroom ii a son of Mr. and Mrs. Donald E. MacWhirter of Santa Rose, Calif. The couple will live in Santa Rosa where the bridegroom is a student at Santa Rosa Junior college. They were wed at the St. Marks Episcopal church. (Shangle photo) Out of Town Guests Attend Garden Party Mr. and Mrs. Clifton B. Gass, 1518 West Main street, are en tertaining Mrs. Bertha Buker, Campbell, Calif., a sister of Mrs. Gass. Last week a garden party was giveft by Mr. and Mrs. Gass in honor of Mrs. Buker. Those at tending were Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Hardy, Ashland, sister and brother-in-law of Mrs. Buker; her niece and grandniece of Grants Pass, Mrs. Herb Dilling ham, and daughter Donna; grandnephew, Lee Gass, Duns muir, Calif.; cousins, Mr. . and Mrs. Earl Peck, Spokane, Wash.; Mr. and Mrs. Jay Wilson, Flint, Mich.; Mrs. Clara Dillingham, Grants Pass; Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Hardy, Raymond, Wash.; Mr. and Mrs. P. R. Hardy, Ashland; Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Archibald and son, Perry Scott, Medford, and Mr. and Mrs. A. V. Hardy, Medford. v Clarkson-Smith Married " Double Ring Ceremony Central Point One of the larger .summer weddings was that of Mist Wanda Smith and Marion Clarkson, July 19. The 8 o'clock evening ceremony was perforated in the Medford Friends church, with about 120 guests attending. The Rev. Clynton G. Crisman officiated for the double ring ceremony. The bride's parents are Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Smith, Central Point, and the bridegroom is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Clarkson, Greenleaf, Ida. The bride's floor length dress was of white slipper satin. The veil she wore was of Chantilly lace and first was worn in 1914 by Madam von Dorn Harbert when she was decorated by the king of Belgium in recognition of her work as president of the International Congress of Farm Women. The bride carried a white Bi- Central Point Lodges Install New Officers At Joint Ceremonies Central Point New officers of the Central Point Mt. Pitt Rebekah and Odd Fellows lodges were installed recently at a joint installation. Mrs. Delbert Mongold and Clark McDowell are the newly installed noble grands. Mrs. John Kime is the Rebe- kah's vice-grand; Mrs. G. E. Kime, recording secretary; Mrs. Leo Ghelardi, financial secre tary; Mrs. Ernest Taylor, treas urer; Mrs. Edna Kilbourn, war den; Mrs. Paul Hopkins, con ductor; Mrs. Marshall Weidman, chaplain; Miss Lillian Anderson, musician; Mrs. Ilda Penland, color bearer; Mrs. Ralph Burk- hart, Mrs. Robert Pfaff, Mrs. Edward Jones, Mrs. Clifford Moore, supporters; Mrs. Albert Trautman and Mrs. Forest Thomason, guards. Mr. McDowells officers are Claire Johnson, vice-grand; G. E. Kime, warden; V. Kight, con ductor; William Musty and For est Thomason, guards; Charles Lamey, chaplain; Andrew Glenn, John Catey, Marshall Weidman, Albert Trautman and A. C. Smith, supporters. The installing officers were Carl Black, Jacksonville, district deputy grand master, and Mrs. Clark McDowell, deputy presi dent of Mt. Pitt Rebekah lodge. They were assisted by a team from Jacksonville. Members of that team included Mr. and Mrs. Black, marshals; Mrs. Peter Fick and Claude Perry, wardo"-11 "v. Margaret Hawkins and Clair Ewart secretaries; Mrs. Brisbine and Albert Hackert, treasurers; Mrs. P. E. Matheny and Francis Brisbine, inside guards; Mrs. A. W. Hackert and Irwin Boyd, outside guards; Mrs. Betty Matheny and Charles Haw kins, chaplains and Miss Anita Heckert, musician. Mrs. Ernest Lowryr past jioble grand, was given a pin by Mrs. Burkhart and a gift from the lodge. Miss Myrtle McKiddie, president of the Theta Rho Girls club was introduced. ' A supper was served following the ceremonies. 1 ble with a white orchid. Her maid of honor. Miss Joan DeZell, Spokane, Wash., wore a lilac taffeta floor length dress. Miss Betty Brown, Greenleaf, Ida.; Miss Marlene Addington, Central Point, and Miss Eletta Wheeler, Newberg, were brides maids. Their gowns were of orchid taffeta and they carried nosegays of orchid sweet peas. Shirley Roberts, Central Point, was flower girl and Frank Roberts, Central Point, was ring bearer. . Marvin Clarkson, Greenleaf, was best man for his brother. Miss Diane James, Sams Val ley, and Miss Shirley Sullivan, Medford, were candlelighters. Their dresses were of yellow and blue organdy. For her daughter's wedding the bride's mother wore a rose crepe dress with white accessor ies. The bridegroom's mother was dressed in a brown and white pinstripe dress with white accessories. Both wore white corsages. The church was decorated with gladiolus and sweet peas. Lary and Gary Smith, twin brothers of the bride, sang a duet and Mrs. Marjorie Crisman sang a solo. Mrs. Crisman also played the wedding music. Ushers were James and Doyle Smith, Central Point; Gene Com fort, Greenleaf, and Dick Beebe, Eugene. The reception was held at the church parlors. Mrs. Letha Dil lon, sister of the bridegroom from Boise, cut the wedding cake. Miss Rose Marie Hansen, Medford, served punch and Miss Pat Schroeder, Medford, had charge of the guest book. Wom en of the church also assisted during the reception. The couple left for their wed ding trip by way of the coast and and visited in Salem and they are living at 122 Portland ave nue, Medford. Out-of-town guests included Mr. and Mrs. William Smith", On ario, Calif., uncle and aunt of the bride; Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy Smith, Baton Rouge, La., cous ins of the bride; Wayne Smith, DeQueen, Ark., a cousin of the bride. In addition to the bride groom's parents and his brother and sister, were family friends Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Reilly, Los Angeles; Mr. and Mrs. Temple McCollough, Nampa, and Mr. and Mrs. Richard Beebe, Eugene The bride was graduated from Polytechnic high school, River side, Calif., after attending grade school in Oklahoma, Medford and Central Point. She also at tended George Fox college at Newberg the past year and has been employed as receptionist by Dr. Alvin Roberts, Central Point. The bridegroom is a graduate of Greenleaf academy and he at tended Friends Bible college, H viland, Kan., and the George Fox college. Al:'--- i' f ft -If? jWVv i - f f 1 4i .: i fi Many oui-of-iown relatives and friends of Mr. and Mrs. Marion Clarkson were in Medford for rites which wed the couple July 19 at the Medford Friends church. The bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Smith, live in Central Point. She is the former Miss Wanda Smith. The bridegroom formerly lived in Greenleaf, Ida., home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Clarkson. (Braincrd photo) Grandson Married In Mrs. Fred L. Whitman, 1820 Barnett road, returned this week from Pasadena, Calif., where she attended the wedding of her grandson, Frank Edmund Whit man Jr., Los Angeles, to Miss Gayle Bonar, Glendale, Calif. Pasadena Rites The ceremony took place at the First Congregational church, Pasadena, on Friday, July 18, with the Rev. J. L. Harnish of-: ficiating. Mrs. Whitman said that about 500 attended the wedding and reception which followed. Law rence s presents 9 iA- and 02. STERLING Roller Shades WAKEFIELD DRAPERY 6th and Bartlett x Phone 2-6010 . An investment both ivise and wonderful There's wisdom in placing money in this fine solid Towle crafted for a lifetime. investment can be slight: a place setting for as little as $29.75, a mere $3.70 for :t teaspoon. 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