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- Niagara Gazette - 3/20/1945
A lovely bride of the early spring
season. Miss Edith Buerger was
united in marriage to Sergeant John
C. Moebius at 4:30 o'clock Saturday
afternoon, March 17, in the St
Paul's Evangelical Lutheran church,
Cleveland avenue.
The Rev. Walter Williams, of
Defiance, Ohio, assisted by the Rev.
John Kuder, officiated at the ceremony,
which took place before a
candlellghted altar banked with
white calls lilies, carnations and
palms.
Mrs.William Woodman furnished
a half-hour program of organ music
preceding the wedding and Mr. Paul
Mehls saag ''Blest Be the Tie that
Binds" and "O, Perfect Love." before
the ceremony, and The'Lord's"
Prayer" during the wedding.
The bride, given in marriage by
her father, wore a gown of candle-
light satin fashioned with a V-
neckline of lace, a simply fitted
bodice and full-lenfth sleeves end-
ing in a graceful point. A row of
buttons extended down the back,
the skirt forming a full court train.
The bride wore a fingertip veil of
candlelight illusion caught at the
crown with lace. She carried a
white prayer book with orchids and
streamers of lilies-of-the-valley and
her great-grandmother's lace heir-
loom handkerchief.
Miss J. Edith Voelker, college
roommate of the bride, served as
maid of honor, wearing a gown of
ice blue taffeta. The bridesmaids,
Miss Dorothy Elch of Poland, Ohio,
Mrs. Donald Wynocker, of Waterville,
Ohio, Mrs. Harold McGinn
and Miss Jean Moebius, of Buffalo,
wore identically-fashioned colonial
gowns of white taffeta, trimmed
with small blue bows. They carried
colonial bouquets of deep red .roses,
white carnations and forget-menots.
The'flower girL Elizabeth
Ann Burford, niece of the bride,
also wore a colonial gown of white
taffeta, trimmed with blue bows,
and carried a small colonial bouquet
of red roses, white carnations
and forget-me-nots.
Mr. Harold Bock was the best
man while Mr. Alvln Messersmlth
and Mr. Glenn DeVentier seated the
wedding guests.
Mrs. Charles Buerger chose for
her daughter's wedding a gown of
black crepe with matching hat,
white gloves and a corsage of red
roses and white sweet peas.' Mrs.
John Moebius, mother of the bridegroom,
was attired in a gown of
blue crepe with matching accessories
and a corsage of red roses and
white sweetpeas. Mrs. Emilie Buerger,
grandmother of the bride, wore
a corsage of pink carnations and
Mrs. Caroline Moebius, grandmother
of. the bridegroom, wore a corsage
of white carnations.
After the reception the bride
changed to a pink crepe dress, with
brown and pink accessories and an
orchid corsage for her wedding trip.
Before the wedding, Mrs. Moebius
was honored with five showers.
Sergeant and Mrs. Moebius left
Sunday evening for Daggett Field,
Calif., where he is stationed.
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Children |
| 1. MOEBIUS, Joel C |
| 2. MOEBIUS, Ann |
| 3. MOEBIUS, Paula |
| 4. MOEBIUS, Wendy L |
| 5. MOEBIUS, John Charles, b. 27 Jun 1952, Columbus, Franklin County, OH d. Mar 1984, Hickory, Catawba County, CA (Age 31 years) |
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