Week 23:Wedding (no shortage of those!)
As we slog on through the pandemic, I will observe, apropos of nothing, that a friend's daughter was finally able to have her wedding today after a delay of a few weeks! Pictures show a grateful and happy bride and groom.
The prompt suggested using pictures (as I recall, having read this two weeks ago) and I have plenty of those, from both sides of our family. I have my parents' family Bible, given to them on the day of their wedding, July 6, 1941, by my mother's grandmother, Metta (Case) McDuff. My mother told me that she wore a navy blue suit and my father was in uniform, having recently rejoined the Navy. They were married in Olympia, Washington at the Foursquare Gospel Church (which I've always found puzzling as I've never found that either of them had a connection to this church).
My husband's parents were slightly younger. Though they knew each other before the war, my mother-in-law was only 16 in 1941, and her husband to be was 18. He too joined the Navy and served in the South Pacific as a Seabee. Edith and Eugene married in 1946 in a Catholic ceremony at St. Nicholas but I'm not sure in which borough of New York City. They invited the priest who married them to their 25th wedding anniversary party but he was unable to attend--Edith saved the letter in which he had to decline the invitation. Sadly, Eugene died of a massive heart attack two months after that anniversary.
It's hard for me to comprehend that my parents were married nearly 80 years ago, and my husband's 74 years ago this month. But we've been married 43 years ourselves so I guess it makes sense!
The prompt suggested using pictures (as I recall, having read this two weeks ago) and I have plenty of those, from both sides of our family. I have my parents' family Bible, given to them on the day of their wedding, July 6, 1941, by my mother's grandmother, Metta (Case) McDuff. My mother told me that she wore a navy blue suit and my father was in uniform, having recently rejoined the Navy. They were married in Olympia, Washington at the Foursquare Gospel Church (which I've always found puzzling as I've never found that either of them had a connection to this church).
My husband's parents were slightly younger. Though they knew each other before the war, my mother-in-law was only 16 in 1941, and her husband to be was 18. He too joined the Navy and served in the South Pacific as a Seabee. Edith and Eugene married in 1946 in a Catholic ceremony at St. Nicholas but I'm not sure in which borough of New York City. They invited the priest who married them to their 25th wedding anniversary party but he was unable to attend--Edith saved the letter in which he had to decline the invitation. Sadly, Eugene died of a massive heart attack two months after that anniversary.
It's hard for me to comprehend that my parents were married nearly 80 years ago, and my husband's 74 years ago this month. But we've been married 43 years ourselves so I guess it makes sense!
Ruth Belknap and Cecil Prewitt, 1941
Edith Kober and Eugene Doerflinger, 1946
I love these Photos Lee Ann! Both ladies are very beautiful brides!
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