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- North Tonawanda NY Evening News - 4/22/1947
White snapdragons and palms
decorated the chancel of St.
Mark's Evangelical Church for
the marriage of Miss Doris A.
Andrees, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. George Andrees, 98 Fredericka
street, to Ralph F. Mellenthine
of Ward road. The wedding
svas salemnized on April 12 by
the Rev. Paul Fretthold.
Wearing a white satin gown
with sweetheart neckline, long
sleeves pointed at the wrists, and
full skirt with train, the bride
carried an arm bouquet of white
roses centered with a corsage of
pink roses. Her fingertip veil of
illusion was edged with lace and
caught with a halo of orange blossoms.
Miss Violet Andrees, the maidof-
honor, wore a gown of yellow
marquisette with square neck
line, three-quarter length sleeves,
with tiers of ruffles featuring the
skirt. She carried an arm bouquet
of American Beauty roses. Mrs.
Ruth Strassburg, Miss Leona Jaeger
and Miss Sophie Prohaska,
bridesmaids, wore similarly styled
gewns in orchid, green and pink
marquisette. Mrs. Strassburg carried
Talisman roses, Miss Jaeger,
yellow roses, and Miss Prohaska,
pink roses.
Mr. Mellenthine was attended
by Donald M. Mellenthine as best
man; Calvin Mellenthine as
groom's man and Melvin Voelker
and Robert Schuster as ushers.
Mrs. Andrees wore a grey dress
with brown accessories for her
daughter's wedding and the bridegroom's
mother, Mrs. Mellenthine,
chose navy blue with white accessories.
Both wore corsages of
red roses.
Following the ceremony a wedding
supper was served in ranger's
Tavern with covers for
twenty-eight guests. In the evening
a reception was tendered the
couple in St. Johnsburg's Fire Hall
with 275 guests present. Out of
town guests were Mrs. Harold
Hastings and son, Frederick, and
Mrs. Harvey Zimmerman of Milwaukee,
Wisconsin and Mr. and
Mrs. Lloyd Johnson of Holly, N. Y.
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