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- Niagara Gazette - 4/17/1942
Miss Dona Marie Diamond, whose
marriage to Private-First Class
Clifford Louis Mahle, of Rochester,
formerly of Fort Niagara and now
w4th the 712th M. P. division in
Buffalo,-will take place at the Fort
Niagara chapel tomorrow afternoon,
was the guest of honor at a lovely
dinner party and shower given by
officers of the Women's Air Raid
Wardens Service Force last night in
the Ray Ott club.
Captain of B company of the
Sendee Forte, Miss Diamond was
presented with a beautiful gift and
a corsage of flowers by her fellow
officers. Dinner was served in the
late evening at a long table centered
with a tiered wedding cake
and topped with-* miniature bride
and bridegroom. Favors and place
cards were in pink.and white.
Among the officers who attended
were Betty J. Harries, commanding
officer; Major Dorothy Brody
Captains Kathleen Ashe, Louise M.
Blackburn, Leona Carrie and Dorothy
Shank and Lieutenants Katharine
Portolese. Selma Bernstein.
Helen Mansour, Mabel Moore. Elizabeth
Garrison, Mary Hallen, Virginia
Miller, Margaret Gibbons. Gypsy
Smith, Josephine Battaglia, Ann
Knoll. Joan AgneHo, Mary Grady,
Helen Boyle, Margaret Welgand,
Lillian O'Connell. Adeline Cutlnl,
Mary Hope, Lorna Walters, Trula
Jones and Kathleen Noonan.
Miss Diamond is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Bertram Diamond,
of Cedar avenue.
The wedding ceremony will be
solemnized at 4 o'clock tomorrow
afternoon by Chaplain Clarence
Anderson, formerly of Troy. Eight
officers of the Service Force will
act with soldiers as guard of honor
for the couple.
ALSO
Niagara Gazette - 4/20/1942
Uniforms of men and women
lent a distinct military atmosphere
to the chapel of Fort Niagara Saturday
afternoon when Miss Dona
Marie Diamond and Private First
Class Clifford Louis Mahle, of the
712th Military Police detachment
in Buffalo, were married.
The bride, who is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Bertram Diamond,
of 521 Cedar avenue, is an officer
of the Niagara Falls Women's Air
Raid Wardens Service Force, which
was represented by many officers
and members. The bridegroom, who
is the son of Mrs. Ada Mahle, of
Rochester, formerly was stationed
at Fort Niagara.
The double ring ceremony was
performed by Lieutenant C. F. Anderson,
post chaplain, in the fort
chapel, which had been attractively
decorated with huge baskets of pink
and white snapdragons and ferns.
Entering the church on the arm
of her father, the bride made a lovely
picture in her floor-length gown
of dusty pink chiffon and lace. She
wore a dainty sweetheart-shaped
halo of chiffon, trimmed with tiny
pink rosebuds, and carried a bridal
bouquet of pale pink Killarney roses.
Elbow-length dusty pink mits completed
her ensemble.
Her only attendant. Miss Gypsy
Smith, was gowned in powder blue
chiffon made on lines similar to
that of the bride's gown. She carried
a bouquet of Talisman roses.
Mr. Clayton Mahle, of Rochester,
brother of the bridegroom, was his
attendant.
The bride's mother wore a floorlength
gown of Eleanor blue with
hat of matching color and a corsage
of pink rosebuds. A similar corsage
was worn by the bridegroom's mother,
who was gowned in navy blue
with matching accessories.
Acting as ushers were four uniformed
members of the Service
Force, Wardens Rose Marie Dixon,
Caamlra Marzak, Catherine Stuart
and Margaret Fell.
After the ceremony, Private
Mahle and Mrs. Mahle left the
church under a archway of crossed
bayonets held by members of the
712th Military Police detachment.
Standing in the guard of honor
along with the soldiers were eight
officers of the force, including Miss
Betty J. Harries, commanding officer;
Miss Dorothy Brody. major;
Mrs. Kathleen Ashe, Miss Louise
M. Blackburn. Mrs. Leona Carrie
and Mrs. Dorothy Shank, captains,
and Miss Helen Mansour and Miss
Mary Hallcn, lieutenants.
At 6:30, o'clock the wedding supper
was served in the Red Coach Inn
with members of the immediate
families and close friends In attendance.
Covers were laid for 22
at the bride's table, which was centered
with a three-tiered wedding
cake and decorated with pale pink
roses, pink and white snapdragons
and fern.
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