Marriages (April 19)

Miss Virginia Frances Hirt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Hirt, and John Lott Bergen, son of Mrs. Caroline VanSinderin Bergen of Jamaica, L.I., were united in marriage on Friday morning by the Rev. George  H. Orvis at the First Presbyterian Church.  Mrs. AC. Wilcox was at the organ.  The bride was given in marriage by her father.  She wore a white taffeta princess style gown, trimmed with lace, and a finger tip veil.  Her bouquet was of gardenias and lilies of the valley.  The maid-of-honor was Miss Anna L. Bergen of Jamaica, L.I., sister of the groom.  She wore a fuchsia taffeta gown. The bridesmaids were Miss Mildred Petley of Bainbridge and Miss Eloise Carpenter of Morris.  They were dressed in pink and blue taffeta.  The attendants wore large straw hats with matching ribbon crowns, and carried bouquets of talisman roses.  Mrs. Hirt, mother of the bride, wore a gown of hyacinth blue lace and crepe, with a gardenia corsage.  The mother of the groom, Mrs. Bergen, was dressed in royal blue lace, with a corsage of gardenias.  Teunis J. Bergen of Rockville Center, L.I., cousin of the groom, was best man.  The ushers included:  Milton G. Billard of Far Rockaway L.I., and Maurice Amend of Queens Village, L.I.  The church was attractively decorated with banks of palms and Easter lilies by the local Crescendo Club, friends of the bride.  Following the ceremony, an informal reception was held in the church, after which the bridal party, relatives and out-of-town guests were entertained at a breakfast at the Red Shutters Tea Room in Afton.  Mr. and Mrs. Bergen left in the afternoon for New York City from where they sailed Saturday for Bermuda on the "Monarch of Bermuda."  Mrs. Bergen is a graduate of the Bainbridge High School and William Smith College.  At present, she is one of the music supervisors in the Johnson City School system.  Mr. Bergen, a graduate of Bucknell College, is in the employ of General Motors at Jamaica.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, April 21, 1938]

 

Announcement has been made of the engagement of Miss Marion E. Ford, daughter of Mrs. J. Wilson Ford of Ithaca, formerly of Oneonta and Bainbridge, to David A. Fraser, son of Mr. and Mrs. H.A. Fraser of Syracuse.  Miss Ford was graduated from Oneonta High School in 1929 and from Cornell University in 1933.  During the following three years, she taught home economics in Bainbridge Central School.  Miss Ford is now a member of the faculty of the Ithaca Senior High School.  Mr. Fraser is an attorney practicing in Syracuse.  He is an alumnus of the Cornell Law School and of Hamilton College, where he was affiliated with Chi Psi.  [Bainbridge News & Republican,  May 5, 1938]

 

Stoddard-MacDonald:  Miss Ruth MacDonald, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold MacDonald of Sidney [Delaware Co., NY], and Neil Stoddard, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred E. Stoddard of Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY], were united in marriage Sunday, May 1, at the home of the groom's parents.  the Rev. S.E. Heath of the local St. Peter's Episcopal Church was the officiating rector.  Miss Alice Lorrimore of Sidney Centre and Charles Folts of Sidney were the attendants.  The bride wore a gown of light blue with a corsage of talisman roses, and Miss Lorrimore wore dark blue.  After a short wedding trip, Mr. and Mrs. Stoddard will make their home in Bainbridge.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, May 12, 1938]