Thursday, June 27, 2019

Another write up on John Francis Carey and Georeanna Orr's wedding

This was in the Danville, IL paper.

FORMER RESIDENT'S BRIDE

Announcement has been made of marriage of former Danville boy to an Indiana girl.  He is John Francis Carey, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. John F. Carey, Douglas Avenue, city. His bride is the former Miss Georeanna Orr, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Orr, Marion, Ind.

Marriage was solemnized at 8:45 a.m. Saturday, June 26, 1937, in the St. Paul's Catholic Church at Marion. The Rev. Father Foley, assistant pastor, read the ring service and sang the nuptial High Mass.

The bride wore white satin, princess style with finger tip veil held in place with orange blossoms. She carried a shower bouquet of red roses.  Miss Mary Ellen Orr, the bride's sister, as maid-of-honor, wore peach silk chiffon, pail green accessories, with bouquet of tea roses.

The bridegroom had as his best man Paul Schroeder, Danville.

A wedding breakfast was served at home of bride's parents for 50 relatives and friends.

The bride is a graduate of St. Paul's Catholic Grade and High Schools at Marion and the bridegroom was a graduate at St. Patrick's School and Danville High School.  He is now an inspector at Marion Malleable Iron Company.

After a short wedding trip in the East the young couple will be at home after July 15 in their newly-furnished apartment, 317 1/2 South Adams Street, Marion.

Those attending from Danville were: Mr. and Mrs. John F. Carey, Miss Mary Helen and Miss Winifred Anna Carey, Joseph Edward Carey, parents, sisters and brother of the bridegroom, Miss Maria Carrigan and Paul Schroeder, and Mrs. Frank O'Connell, Potomac, sister of the bridegroom.

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