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- North Tonawanda NY Evening News - 5/19/1948
Invitations have been issued by
Mrs. Raymond M. Batt of Payne
Ave. for the marriage of her
daughter, Marilyn Hartnett, to
Frederick W. Niland, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Michael Niland of Elmwood
Park. The wedding will be
solemnized at 11 o'clock Satur-
day morning June 5 in Ascension
Church.
Miss Batt has chosen her three
sisters as attendants. Mrs. Thomas
J. Feely of Andover, N. Y. will
be matron of honor; Mrs. Arthur
J. Ness of Wilson and Miss Marjorie
Batt, bridesmaids.
Edward Niland will be his
brother's best man and Jeremiah
Heffernan and John Brier of Buffalo
will be ushers.
Prenuptial parties have been
given for the bride - elect. A variety
shower was given by Miss
Elizabeth Trumper of Buffalo on
May 8; a dinner party by Mrs.
Arthur Ness and Miss Marjorie
Batt at Lakelands, Wilson on
May 9; a variety shower by Mrs.
James Laughton at her home,
Niagara-on-the-Lake on May 15.
Miss Barbara Mansfield of
Whiting St. will entertain on Friday
evening, May 21. Mrs. George
Ray of Buffalo and Miss Mary
Humphrey will compliment Miss
Eatt at a linen shower on Saturday,
May 22 at the Lockport
Town and Country Club. On May
26 Mrs. Russell Squelch will entertain
former classmates of
D'Youville College.
Mrs. Stephen Elggren of Buffalo
previously entertained at a
luncheon and personal shower for
Miss Batt.
ALSO
North Tonawanda NY Evening News - 6/5/1948
The altars of Ascension Church were banked with
flowers and branch candelabra this morning at 11 o clotk
when Miss Marilyn Harnett Batt, daughter of Mrs. Raymond
M. Batt of Payne Ave. and the late Raymond M Batt and
Frederick W. Niland, son of Mr. and Mrs. Michael C. Niland
of Elmwood Park, were united in marriage. The Rt. Rev.
Msgr. John A. Weismantel of St. Francis Church performed
the ceremony and the nuptial mass was read by Rev. Francis
Hunt, pastor of Ascension Church.
The bride was gowned in petal-
pink pure silk crepe made with a
fitted bodice, deep square neck-
line, long sleeves with points
over the hand and a flowing
skirt which fell into a long train.
She wore a halo headdress of
pink velvet adorned with pink
rose buds and cornflowers, the
velvet falling into long streamers
caught with the cornflowers. She
carried a Colonial bouquet of
pink rose buds and blue corn-
flowers.
The bride was attended by her
sisters, Mrs. thomas Feeley of
Andover, N.Y., as matron-of-
honor; Miss Marjorie Batt and
Mrs. Arthur Ness, bridesmaids.
They were gowned alike in hea-
venly blye silk crepe dresses made
on simple lines with fitted bodi-
ces, square necklines and long
sleeves. they wore large leghorn
hats with blue streamers and
carried French lilacs.
Edward Niland was best man
for his brother and Jeremiah Hef-
fernan and Joseph Brier were
ushers.
The bride's mother wore a
beige crepe suit and Milan straw
hat trimmed with pink roses and
apple-green veilling. Green ac-
cessories and a corsage of gar-
denias and small pink rosebuds
competed her costume. A grey
sheer crepe dress with black
accessories and a corsage of pink
sweetpeas weree worn by the
bridegroom's mother.
A wedding breakfast was serv-
ed at Hotel Weatbrook, Bufflao,
for the immediate families and a
few close friends.
The couple will reside in Wash-
ington, D. C.. where Mr. Niland
is attending the School of Dentis-
try at Georgetown University.
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