St. Louis Post-Dispatch from St. Louis, Missouri • Page 41

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John R. Green II Mary Louise Forshey Wed to Maj. L. E. Horras At Morning Ceremony MiSS FRANCES VAN SANT, whose parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Thomas Harris Van Sant of Fulton, have announced her engagement to Pfc. John Raeburn Green II. He is stationed at Fort Meade, Md. if MRS.

LAWRENCE EDWARD HORRAS. a bride of yesterday. Before the ceremony, in Immaculate Conception Church, she was Miss Mary Louise Forshey, daughler of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick W.

Forshey. Maf. Horras is an Army Air Force pilot. Julea rierlow photograph MRS. HAROLD EUGENE WALTERS, the former Miss Jean Cameron, whose marriage took place Thursday night in Second Presbyterian Church.

She is a daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Solon Cameron. Dr. Walters and his brida will live in Denver.

Julel rierlow photograph R. AND MRS. THOMAS HARRIS VAJ SANT of Fulton, have announced informally the engagement of their daughter, 'Miss Frances Van Sant, to Pfc. John Raeburn Green II, who RECEDED by three pink-clad attendants carrying frilly pink mufa trimmed with purple orchids, Miss Mary Louise Forshey walked down the aisle of Immaculate Conception Church yes unit at Fort Meade, Md. bride of Maj.

Jgawrence Edward 75 combat miVia in the Medl- aaaHnMH mmb mmmm mmbhmm vph vl fry Jf Jti xwn hs- MI v- 1 li'n Is serving with a Field Artillery The prospective bride, her mother and brother, James Albert Van Sant III, were in St. Louis briefly last Wednesday en route to Fulton from Nashville, Tfnn, where Monday she was graduated from Vanderbllt University. Previously she was graduated from William Woods College, Fulton. At Vanderbilt she was president of her sorority. Gamma Phi Beta, and a member of Chi Delta Phi, literary sorority.

She has one sister. Miss Katherine Van Sant of Washington, D. C. Her grandparents are Mr. and Mrs.

Phillip Montague Smith of Napton, and the late Dr. and Mrs. James A. Van Sant of Mount Sterling, Ky. Mr.

Green is the son of Mr. and Mrs. John Raeburn Green 66 Arundel place, and the brother of Pfc. Lewis C. Green and Mrs.

Alfred Lionel Chute i Elisabeth Cox Green), whose husband, an ensign, is naval aviator in the Pacific theater. He is a grandson of Mrs. John F. Green, 500 East Polo drive, Clayton, and the late Mr. Green, and the late Mr.

and Mrs. Lewis J. Cox of Terre Haute, Ind. A graduate of St. Louis Country Day School, the bridegroom-tc-be attended Harvard University and Westminster College, Fulton, where he joined Phi Delta Theta fraternity.

Miss Vaughn Engaged To Lt. E. J. Hasten Jr. R.

AND MRS. JOHN ED WARD VAUGHN of Chi cago announced the en gagement of their daughter, Miss Kathryn Vaughn, and Lt. Erwin Joseph Hasten at a cocktail party at Chicago's South Shore Country Club last Tuesday, a day after Lt. Hasten was commissioned an Army Air Force officer at the University of Chicago. Mrs.

Vaughn was Miss Olivia Harbaugh of St. Louis. The bride-to-be, a graduate of Sacred Heart Convent, Chicago, is the granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. S.

J. Harbaugh, who live here at the Westmoreland Hotel, and the late Mr. and Mrs. Edward Vaughn of Chicago, former St. Louisans.

The prospective bridegroom, whose parents are Judge and Mrs. Erwin Joseph Hasten, also of Chicago, was graduated from Loyola University before entering the Army. terday morning to become the Horras, Army pilot, veteran of terranean theater. Freeman-Sfocker Evening Wedding In Rose Garden A NATURAL arrangement of cedar trees forming an arch nearly 12 feet tall at the end of the Samuel Charles Stocker rose garden last evening, was the setting for the wedding of Mr. and Mrs.

Stocker's daughter. Miss Hester Stocker, to Brewster Freeman. The garden, approached from a wide terrace at the south end of the house on Rott road, Kirk-wood, is centered with a pedestaled crystal ball, which during last night's ceremony served as a background for a prte dieu, where the bridal couple received the blessing. White posts marked a path from the terrace steps to the cedar arbor where the ceremony was performed by the Rev. Raymond Jones, roommate of the bridegroom at Amherst College.

The marriage was the first performed by the Rev. Mr. Jones following his recent graduation from Columbia University Theological School. Miss Ellen Stocker, her sister's only attendant, was gowned in pastel-striped chiffon made with a drop shoulderline and billowy skirt. She wore a natural straw bonnet, its front brimmed in cornflowers to match her shower bouquet of cornflowers and delphinium.

Lt. Edward Freeman, brother of the bridegroom, who was commissioned June 1 a- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was best man. Starched marquisette over a ruffled taffeta petticoat was worn by the bride. The gown's tightly fitted bodice was designed with short sleeves and a modified square neckline, and the waist-length veil was held to a wreath of orange blossoms. The bride carried stephanotis.

Two hundred guests, who remained after the garden cer-mony for a reception, were served from a flower-decorated buffet 'table in the dining room. Mrs. Stocker and Mrs. Henry B. Freeman, mother of the bridegroom, were gowned in gray Continued on Page 4, Column 4.

Smart Weddings Mark New York Social Events By Frances Conant Richards NEW YORK, June 10. THE combination of fixing up a recently acquired house, having a bride in the family and the wedding scheduled for the end of this week, all add up to making Mrs. Leslie H. Thompson as busy as anyone in town. Mr.

and Thompson (she was Violet Kauffman) have sent out invitations for the wedding of their daughter, Joyce, to Lt. E. Teare Browne, U. S. which is to take place in the chapel of St.

Bartholomew's Church Friday, June 16. Following the ceremony, the two families and friends will move uptown for a reception at the Cosmopolitan Club. Joyce's ilance, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph G.

Browne of Cleveland, arrived in New York only last Tuesday. He has been on overseas duty in the South Pacific for 19 months. His first stop off en route East was in Cleveland to visit his family. Since his arrival in Manhattan he has been going over wedding plans and visiting several close relatives who will be unable to attend the ceremony. Lt.

Browne was on the Kearney when it was torpedoed by the Germans off Iceland in November, 1941, and took part in the African invasion. Joyce Thompson, granddaughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. John Westley Kauffman. finished her teaching job at Albany School for Girls three weeks ago.

Several pre-wedding parties are scheduled for the next few days, including the cocktail party to be given by Mrs. Augustus G. Studer Thursday at her apartment on East Sixty-fourth street. This will be followed by a dinner to be given by Mr. and Mrs.

Thompson at the home of Mrs. Delphine Jenkins, 10 East Seventy-seventh street. As a windup before the wedding Friday, the bridegroom's parents will entertain the wedding party at a luncheon at Sherry's. At present Mrs. Thompson has had to let up a bit with redec- The bridegroom, commander of the oldest B-2S Marauder bombing group, recently returned after 19 months in the North African, Sicilian and Italian campaigns, wearing the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Silver Star and the Air Medal with 11 oak leaf clusters.

The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick W. Forshey, 3247 Longfellow boulevard, was escorted by her father to the candlellghted altar. The ceremony was performed by the Rev.

Michael Joseph Sullivan, pastor of the church, assisted by the Rev. Ralph W. Warnv, the bride's cousin, and Msgr. Mark K. Carroll.

Baskets and vases of lilies and larkspur against palms and ferns afforded a background for the bridal party. The procession was led by th ushers the bride's brother, Lt. I.co Hartley Forshey, also an Army pilot, who arrived yesterday from Laughlin Field, Del Rio, the bridegroom's cousin, Benjamin Horras, and his brother-in-law, Vincent Briegel; William C. Lichtenberg and Lt, Harry Deutman Jr. James Horras was best man for his brother.

They are sons of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew S. Horras, 3968 De Tonty street. Mr.

J. McCarthy was mtron of honor, and the bridegroom's sister, Mrs. Mary Lou Horras, and Miss Audrey Muck-erman, bridesmaids. Dresses for the bride's attendants were pastel pink marquisette, the skirts full over taffeta, trimmed down the front with narrow ruffles set on In conventional designs. To complete their costumes they wore small pink hats from which three-tiered circular flanges of pink marquisette fell over the back of their hair.

The bride wore a summery white marquisette gown, its bodice set off by a wide pleated ruffle in drop shoulder effect, and long marquisette sleeves. The skirt was gathered full at the base of a set-in girdle, and was held wide at the train with hairbraid. A tulle veil and shorter face veil were secured to the bride's hair with sprays of lilies of the valley. Her flowers were white orchids and larkspur. Mrs.

Forshey was gowned In soft green sheer, a small hat almost covered with lilies of the Continued on Page 2, Column 6. CAPT. AND MRS. C. HAROLD BRAND, leaving the chapel of the Greensboro (N.

Army Air Base after their marriage June 2. Fellow officers of the bridegroom, all formerly stationed at Jefferson Barracks, stand at salute. Mrs. Brand was Miss Constance Meyer, daughter of Mrs. Alfred Henry Meyer, MISS HELEN PATRICIA ElDSON.

daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Willard C. Eidson of Columbus, who will be married July 1 I to Ens. Arthur Nelson Greene a Navy pilot in the Ferry Command.

The engagement was announced last week in Columbus. I Continued on Pago 7, Column 3. 4.