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- Troy NY Times Record - 7/71941
Miss Vivian Madelyn McClure, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Archibald McClure of Valley Falls, became the Bride of Charles
Dixon Ashworth, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. Merritt Ashworth of
Hoosick Falls on Sunday evening, June 29, at a candlelight
service in the Valley Falls Methodist Church. Rev. Leon
Boughton of Binghamton performed the ceremony. The church
was decorated wjth palms and Easter lilies. A program of traditional
weddirTg^nusic was played by Hugh Sharp. Ralph Domin
of North Adams, soloist, sang "O Lord Most Holy" and "I Love
Thee."
Bethlehem Chapter
To Hold Luncheon-Bridge
Bethlehem Star Chapter, O. E. 9.,
will have a 1 p.m. lifhcheon-bridge
Wednesday at the home of Mrs.
Harold A McChesney, SI Eleventh
Street
Mrs. Leona Campaign? will have
general charge and will be assisted
by Mrs. Nellie D. Founks, Mrs.) Gertrude
Ward and Mrs. McChesney.
Reservations may be made
through the hostess and general
chairman.
«• TNSSO
VETERANS TO MEET.
A meeting of the Democratic
Veterans will be held at The Hote!
Troy at S p.m. today to further | ford, Averlll Park, Grafton, Peters-
July 27, burg and Berlin.
Hostess to Auxiliary
Mrs. Jean Brouillette of 28 Crell
Avenue, Wynantekill, was hostess
Saturday night at a joint meeting
of the Taconlc Valley Post, No. M7,
American Legion Auxiliary.
Following the buslneM meeting
games and a social, evening were
enjoyed. Supper was served from
a table attractively decorated (it
red, white and blue, In keeping
with the holiday.
Guests were present from Water-
Attending the bride were her<
three sisters. Mrs. Charles White of
Beacon, who acted as matron of
honor, Mrs. Richard Thomas of
Delmar, who was junior matron,
and Miss Shirley McClure and Miss
Jane E. Ashworth, a sister of the
bridegroom, who were the bridesmaids.
The bride's two nieces,
Nancy Lee and Ann Lynn White
were the flower girls, and Ann Ashworth,
sister of the bridegroom, was
the ring bearer.
The bride, given in marriage by
her father, wofe a mid-Victorian
gown Of ivory Duchess satin with a
court train. She wore a long
double veil; one of bridal illusion
edged with silk chantilly lace, over
this she wore a cap of baby's
breath flowers to which was
fashioned a long paneled veil of
Swiss lace, a family heirloom. She
carried a bouquet of bride's roses
with a shower of white ribbons and
sweet peas.
All the attendants wore empire
gowns of pastel shades. The ma*
tran of honor was dressed in peach
silk marquisette and carried a fan
of lavender sweet peas. The junior
matron wore aqua marquisette and
her fan was of pink sweet peas. Both
the bridesmaids were attired in yellow
gowns and carried fan., of blue
bachelor buttons. All the attendants
wore flower combs in their
hair to match their fans. The
flower girls and ring bearer wore
long dresses fashioned like those
of the other attendants. Those of
the flower girls were marquisettewit
h wreaths of pink rosebuds In
their hair tied with long streamers
of velvet ribbon. They carried Ivory
satin baskets filled with rosebuds.
The ring bearer's dress was of
peach marquisette with a wreath
of lavender sweet peas. She carried
the ring
edged wtthSfShantilly lace from
which hung a shower of white ribbons
and baby's breath
Donald LeClalr of Hoosick Falls
was the best man, and the ushers
were Ira Fiske, jr., and Aubrey
Brownell of Hoosick Falls, Richard
E. Thomas of Delmar and Charles
White of Beacon.
Following the ceremony a reception
was held at the home of the
bride's parents. Acting as hostesses
were the Misses Statia Kowalsky of
Schenectady, Mildred Hall of Ticonderoga,
classmates of the bride, and
Marguerite and Kathleen Barrett,
Ruth Milllman and Dolores Slater
of Valley Falls, Laura Wade of
Troy, and Nancy Jones of Hoosick
Falls.
Receiving the guests with the
bridal party was the bride's mother
gowned in white chiffon with a
shoulder bouquet of orchids, and the
mother of the bridegroom in a gown
of sky blue crepe with a lace bodice
with a garland of yellow daisies.
The paternal grandmother of the
bridegroom also assisted in receiving
the guests, she wore a gown of
sky blue crops with a shoulder
bouquet of pink rosebuds.
After a motor trip Mr., and Mrs.
Ashworth will make their home in
Torktown, Pa., where the bridegroom
is engaged In governmental
aeronautical research
Mrs. Ashworth Is a graduate of
Valley Falls High School and of
Syracuse University School of
Nursing. Mr. Ashworth was graduated
from Hoosick Falls High
School and Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute. He is a member of Phi
Kappa Tau and Sigma Xi fra-
ternities.
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