Marriages (April 25)

Palombo - Brown

Bainbridge News & Republican,  June 22, 1944

The marriage of Miss Nellie Van Dyke Brown and Trooper Joseph Palombo took place at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Brown, Stamford, on Saturday at 4 p.m.  Miss Brown is a graduate of Bloomville High School and Spencer School of Business in Kingston.  For the last two years she has been a teller in the Sidney Bank. Trooper Palombo has been a member of Troop C of the State Police for nearly 15 years and is at present stationed in Sidney in the teletype division.

 

Webster - Mockridge

Bainbridge News & Republican, July 6, 1944

London, England:  From his bed in an American Red Cross Hospital, Private Ernest Webster, of New Berlin [Chenango Co., NY] wired, "Come on.  I've got the wedding license."  So Doris Mockridge, 20, hurried down from Weymouth to wed the American she met months ago in a South Coast movie.  He is back from Normandy where he lost a leg.  "It may be a bedside wedding," said Doris' sister.  "Or Ernie may be wheeled to the church on a stretcher. Ernie's going to be flown home to America and Doris want to accompany him."

 

McLeod - Grosfent

Bainbridge News & Republican, July 13, 1944

The marriage of Miss Jessie Hall Grosfent to Neil Donald McLeod took place Saturday in the sun room of the Hospital of the Good Shepherd, Syracuse, the Rev. Frederic Evenson, of Gilbertsville, performing the ceremony in the presence of the bride's mother and nurses. The young couple were on their way to Gilbertsville from Buffalo Friday to be married the next day, when an auto accident near Cazenovia sent them to the hospital.  Miss Grosfent received a bad cut on the forehead and numerous bruises, and Mr. McLeod sustained broken ankles of both feet and a gash on his head that required 16 stitches. The car was badly smashed.  Mrs. Edwin H. Holden and the Rev. Evenson went to Syracuse Saturday and the young couple decided to have their wedding on the day planned.  Mrs. McLeod was able to return with her mother, but Mr. McLeod will be confined to the hospital for several weeks.

 

Tillman - Remsen

Bainbridge News & Republican, August 17, 1944

Miss Barbara Hunt Remsen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George M. Remsen, Scarsdale (Westchester Co., NY), and Lieut. George Sherwood Tillman, son of Chenango County Clerk and Mrs. Irving D. Tillman, Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], were married at 4 p.m. Aug. 9 in the First Baptist church at Norwich with the Rev. Harold Knight officiating.  The bride, who was given in marriage by Cyrus M. Higley, president of Norwich Board of Education, was attended by Miss Alice Higley. She wore a street length dress of two shades of purple with a corsage of yellow roses and her attendant wore a yellow dress with orchid sweet peas.  Robert Tillman, the groom's brother, was best man.  The bride, who is a graduate of Scarsdale High School and Ohio University, had taught second grade in the Norwich school system for two years and will return this fall.  Lieutenant Tillman is stationed at Drew Field, Fla., where he will report Aug. 19 after the young couple return from a short wedding trip.  Lieutenant Tillman was graduated form Norwich High School, Manlius Military Academy and Hamilton College.  He enlisted in the Army Air Forces in September, 1942.  More than 100 guests attended the informal wedding and reception.

Schultheiss - Ledbetter

Bainbridge News & Republican, August 17, 1944

Mr. and Mrs. R.H. Ledbetter, Sidney [Delaware Co., NY], have announced the engagement of their daughter, Margaret, to Robert A. Schultheiss, son of Mr. and Mrs. John F. Schultheiss, of West Roxbury, Mass.  Miss Ledbetter is a graduate of the Sidney High School and the New York State Teachers College, Albany.  She is at present employed in the Electronics Department of the General Electric Co., in Schenectady.  Mr. Schultheiss is a graduate of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Mass.. He is a test engineer in the General Electric plant in Fort Wayne, Ind.

Wilson - Giordano

Bainbridge News & Republican, August 17, 1944

Mr. and Mrs. Patsy Giordano, of Madison, N.J., announce the engagement of their daughter, Phyllis Theresa, to Sergeant Clifford L. Wilson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Warren B. Wilson, of Sidney [Delaware Co., NY].