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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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