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- North Tonawanda NY Evening News - 9/15/1945
A pretty wedding was solemnized
Saturday morning, September
1 at 11 a. m. in St Francis of
Assisi rectory, when Miss Bernice
Bacon, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
George A. Bacon, Sr., of 96 Scott
street became of bride of Duane
Townsend, son of Mr. and Mrs.
LeRoy Townsend, Sr., of 80 Elm
street.
The Rt. Rev. Msgr. John Weismantel
officiated at the double
ring ceremony. Miss Jeannine
Johns sang the "Ave Maria" accompanied
by Mrs. William Bacon
at the piano.
The bride, given in marriage by
her father, wore a gown of white
faille fashioned in princess style
with long fitted sleeves pointed
over the wrists. Her fingertip veil
fell from a heart-shaped tiara of
net. She wore a single strand of
pearls, the gift of the groom and
carried a bouquet of white carnations,
baby breath and gardenias.
Mrs. Virginia Ostwald, matron
of honor, wore a light blue net
gown, with fitted bodice, and full
skirt and carried pink carnations
and white baby breath tied with
blue ribbon.
Pre-nuptial showers for the
bride were given by Mrs. Frank
Townsend, Mrs. Virginia Ostwald,
Mrs. LeRoy Townsend, Sr., and
Mrs. Robert Goltz, Mrs. Doris
Doel and Mrs. Arthur Vigrass.
Mr. and Mrs. Townsend are
now at home at 57 A-Courtside
Drive, North Tonawanda, after a
brief trip to the Adirondack
Mountains.
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