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a A--THE HARTFORD DAILY COURANT: SUNDAY. NOVEMBER 21, 1943. Miss King, Mr. Stevens Wed Saturday Miss Virginia King, daughter of Judge and Mrs. Henry T.

King of Meriden became the bride of Mr. Almon Gerard Stevens, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Stevens of Cheshire Street, on Saturday afternoon at 4 o'clock the St. Paul's Universalist Church, Meriden, where Rev.

Isaac Smith performed the ceremony. bride, who was given in marriage by her father, attended sister-in-law, Mrs. Henry T. King, as matron honor. The bridesmaids Miss Katharyn McKee of Old Lyme Miss Barbara Hellman of Hartford, college classmates of the bride.

Mr. Charles Helm of Hartford served as best man. Mr. Axel Norling and Mr. Henry T.

King, ushered. The bridal gown was fashioned of white brocade with a full skirt terminating in a cathedral train. Her illusion veil was arranged from a wreath of orange blossoms. The matron or gowned Haut" romerigne beauty carried a faille bouquet boufof mixed flowers. The bridesmaids were dressed similarly, in faille bouffant with bouquets of American beauty roses.

Mrs. Stevens was graduated in 1939 from the Howe-Marot School in Thompson and from Connecticut College in New London. Mr. Stevens is a graduate of Suffield Academy in the class of 1939 and attended Dartmouth College where he was a member of the Theta Delta Chi. Miss Vialle Is Fiancee Of Aaron Pratt Mrs.

G. Walter Vialle of Concord. announces the engagement her daughter, Miss Virginia Vialle, to Sergeant a Aaron Paul Pratt, of the Army Medical Corps. son of Dr. and Mrs.

Aaron Paul Pratt of Windsor. Miss Vialle is a graduate of ConAcademy Pierce Secretarial School in Boston. Sergeant Pratt School is and a the graduate Eastman of Schools Music of that University of Rochester. He present stationed at the Base Hospital, Homestead Army Air Field, Homestead, Fla. Mrs.

Clement Scott of Sycamore Road. West Hartford. will entertain the following relatives at a family do dinner party on Thanksgiving Day at her home: Mr. and Mrs. Maynard T.

Hazen and daughter, Miss Frances Hazen of Asylum Avenue, Miss Mary Thompson and Winifred Alexander, both of New Haven. Other relatives will have supper with Mrs. Scott in the evening. Lieutenant Colonel Phillip S. Wainwright and his sister, Miss Mabel Wainwright, have moved from Scarborough Street to their home on Forest Street.

Mrs. Rodney Lee of New York City will be the holiday guest of her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Charles F.

Seaverns of Asylum Avenue. Mr. and Mrs. J. D.

Stout, Jr. and family of Asylum Avenue, West Hartford, will be the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Philip B. Stanley New Britain, who are entertaining with a Thanksgiving dinner.

Miss Cornelia Landon, daughter of Mrs. Staunton Williams of Mohawk Drive, West Hartford, will return Wednesday from Kent Place School, Summit, N. to spend the holidays her mother. Mr. and Mrs.

Harold D. Carey of Whiting Lane, West Hartford, will be the guests of Mr. Carey's brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. H.

Bissell Carey Farmington, on Thanksgiving Day. Mrs. James Lee Loomis, Jr. and West Hartford, are returning small son, Pierre of Arnoldale Road, their home next, week after spending several weeks the guests of her parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Leo M. Grace of Webster Groves, Mo. Mr. and Mrs. Roberts of Orchard Road.

Hartford, will Walter, spend the holiday week end with their daughter, Mrs. James L. Howard, of New York City, Mr. and Mrs. Robert C.

Glazier of Steele Road, West Hartford, will entertain at a family dinner 011 Thanksgiving Day at their home, Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Glazier of Walbridge Road. West Hartford, and Mr.

and Mrs. Warren M. Cramer of Farmington. Miss Jane O'Connor of New York City, daughter of Mrs. A.

R. Grinof Hickory Lane, West Hartford, will spend the Thanksgiving week end with her mother. Miss Joan Paul, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.

W. Paul of Whiting Lane, West Hartford, is visiting Miss Katherine Dwyer of New York City this week end, a classmate at Connecticut College, New London. Mrs. Euen Van Kleeck and Mrs. Whitman was cently at the home of she is residing while MRS.

ROYAL WHITMAN, 2d, AND SON photographed with her young son, Robert Sturges Whitman. reher father, Mr. John H. Buck of Scarborough Street, with whom husband. Boatswain's Mate Second Class Whitman, is stationed at Short Beach, L.

I. (Deford Dechert Photo.) MISS VIRGINIA L. VAN DYKE Miss Van Dyke, daughter of Mrs. Harry Haymond of Asylum Avenue, West Hartford, and Private First Class Harold Niels Wessel. son of Mr.

and Mrs. William Wessel of Long Island and New York, are engaged. (De Photo.) daughter, Miss Margaret Van Kleeck, of Concord Street, West Hartford, spent last week end in York where they attended the bazar and dance given for service men by the New York Canadian Women's Club at the Savoy-Plaza. George Bennett Wardinski, infant son of Lieutenant Colonel and Mrs. George A.

Wardinski of Spartanwas christened on Monday afterburg, S. formerly of Hartford, noon, November 15, in the Episcopal Church of the Advent by Rev. William P. Lea. child's godparents are Brigadier General R.

W. Buzzell of Camp Wheeler, Colonel and Mrs. Harry W. Generous of Indianapolis, formerly of Hartford, and Miss Helen Edith Wardinski of Vernon Street, Colonel Wardinski's sister. Mr.

and Mrs. Theodore G. Case of Granby will entertain on Thanksgiving day with a large family dinner. MISS BARBARA ANN EDDY Mr. and Mrs.

Sherman W. Eddy of Avon announce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Barbara Ann Eddy, to Aviation Cadet Robert E. Edmond, son of Mrs. Dora Edmond of Farmington. Cadet Edmond is stationed at Laredo, Tex.

(Bachrach Photo, Weld-McGuire Engagement Is Announced and Mrs. Stanley Weld of Steele Road, West Hartford, announce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Barbara Weld, to Lieutenant (jg) William McGuire, USNR, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward McGuire St. George, Staten Island.

NiCOt Miss Weld attended Oxford School and is a graduate of Colby Junior College and Connecticut College for Women. She is a member of the Cotillion Club and a provisional of the Junior League of Hartford. from Bucknell University Schoo Lieutenant en McGuire graduated of Engineering in 1942 and is now stationed in Philadelphia. No date has been set for the wedding. ENSIGN CATHERINE CAPEL SMITH Ensign Smith, USNR, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Charles C. Smith of Port Chester, N. stationed at Naval Air Station, Pensacola. is the fiancee of Lieutenant Shepherd Monson Holcombe of the Army Air Corps, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Harold Goodwin Hol- combe of Spring Street. Ensign Catherine Smith, Fiancee Of Lieut. Holcombe Mr. and Mrs.

Charles C. Smith of Port Chester, N. announce the engagement of their daughter, Ensign Catherine Capel Smith. USNR, to Lieutenant Shepherd Monson Holcombe of the Army Air Corps, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Harold Goodwin Holcombe of Spring Street. Miss Smith is a graduate of the Shipley School, Bryn Mawr, and of Bryn Mawr College in the class of 1942. A granadaughter of the late Mrs. James T. Capel of Pittsburgh, and Port Chester, N.

she was commissioned on August 24 at Northampton, and is now stationed the Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Fla. Lieutenant Holcombe is a graduate of Loomis School and was graduated from Yale University in the class of 1943. He received his commission on May 11 at New York University, He is a grandson of the late John M. Holcombe, for many years president of the Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company, and also a direct descendant of MajorGeneral Seth Pomeroy of the Army in whose memory the Sons of the Revolution have erected a monument at Peekskill N. Y.

Dr. and Mrs. R. Rowley of North Oxford Street will entertain the following guests at Thanksgiving dinner, Mr. and Mrs.

N. W. Spencer of Fulton Place, West Hartford, Mr. and Mrs. C.

R. McLean, Miss Ruth McLean, and Miss Margaret McLean, all from Rockville. Miss Peggy Smith, a student at Pine Manor, Wellesley, will have as her guests for Thanksgiving the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wilmot M.

Smith of Walbridge Road. West Hartford, Miss Sally Washburn of St. Paul. and Miss Betty Smith of Philadelphia, both classmates of Miss Smith. Miss Nancy Grosvenor, daughter of Dr.

and Mrs. Frank L. Grosvenor of Ledyard Road, West Hartford. will return 011 Wednesday from Simmons College to spend the Thanksgiving holiday with her parents. Miss Ruth Russell, a student at Smith College, Northampton, will return today after spending the week end with her parents, Dr.

and Mrs. G. Gardiner Russell of Colony Road, West Hartford. Miss Sali Godard, a student at Smith College, will arrive on Wednesday to spend the Thanksgiving holiday with her parents. Mr.

and Mrs. Paul Beach Godard of Cumberland Road. West Hartford, and will have as her guest a classmate, Miss Margaret Swanton of Columbus, Ohio. Mrs. Albert F.

Corbin of New Britain left this week to spend the winter with her son-in-law and daughter, Colonel and Mrs. Frederick W. Huntington of New Orleans, La. Miss Enid R. Heine of Danbury will spend the holidays the guest of her brother and sister-in-law.

Mr. and Mrs. Keith Sellers Heine of Mohawk Drive, West Hartford. Mrs. F.

Goodwin Smith of Northmoore Road, West Hartford. has returned from New York City. Mr. William Eblen, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Roy E. Eblen of Fernwood Road, West Hartford. will have as his guest for Thanksgiving week end Mr. Donald Octenburg of Garden City, L. a classmate at Williams College.

Miss Jean Clinchy, daughter of Rev. and Mrs. Russell J. Clinchy of North Beacon Street, will have as her guest for the holidays, Miss Katie Niedelchen of Milwaukee, who is a classmate at Connecticut College, New London. Mrs.

Lincoln R. Young and children, Eleanor, Carolyn, and LinA day coln Hartford, for of North will Brooklyn, leave N. Steele next Road, where Wednes- West they will be the guests of her parents, and Mrs. Bernard H. Smith, over the holiday week end.

PFC Thomas C. Soby of the Marine Corps, Parris Island. S. arrived on Wednesday to spend 8 ten dava furlough with his parents. Mr.

Mrs. Ralph H. of Mountain Road, West Hartford. He will then be stationed at New River, N. C.

Mrs. Sarah P. Taber of Concord Street. West Hartford. left on Wednesday for East Orange, N.

J. where she will spend several weeks as the guest of her son and Mr. and Mrs. Earl Taber, former residents of Hartford. Mrs.

Joseph P. Hall of Scarborough Street will spend the Thanksgiving holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Leander H. Conklin, of New York City and Madison.

Mrs. Lewis Rose of Kenyon Street was in New York City for several days last week. Mrs. Norma Stoper of Farmington, has returned from a trip to New York. MRS.

BEN H. SOUTHLAND Mrs. Southland, Lillian A. Nelson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

John B. Netormor Plantsville, and Lieutenant (jg) Southland, Jr. USNR, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ben H.

Southland of Beverly Hills, were married on October 30 in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Jean Putsche Names Date For Wedding Miss Jean Elizabeth Putsche. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Reese Putsche of Lexington Road, West Hartford, has chosen Saturday, November 27, as the date for her marriage to Mr.

Theodore Waters Averill. son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph J. Averill of Washington, Conn.

The ceremony will be performed in St. John's Church, West Hartford, by Rev. H. H. Donegan.

pastor. Miss Putsche has chosen her sister, Apprentice Seaman Sarah Cravens Putsche of the WAVES, stationed at Hunter College, New York, as maid of honor. The bridesmaids will be Miss Doris Reese Putsche, another sister; Miss Jean Mott of Scarsdale, N. Miss Lucille Peterson of Manchester and Miss Jean Hotchkiss of Washington, Conn. Her sister, Miss Margaret Ann Putsche, will be flower girl.

Mr. Heman B. Averill of the V-12 Unit at Trinity College will serve as best man for his brother. The ushers will be Lieutenant John Wright of the Marine Corps, stationed at Brainard Field, Mr. Robert Bauer of the V-12 Unit at Yale University, Mr.

Cobb Kunz of Schenectady, N. and Mr. Lester Whitney of Washington, Conn. reception will follow, at the home of Mr. and Putsche.

(Morse Photo.) MRS. ALMON G. STEVENS Judge and Mrs. Henry T. King of Meriden, whose to Mrs.

Stevens is the former Virginia King, daughter. of Mr. Stevens, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry A Stevens of Cheshire Street, took place on Saturday afternoon in St.

Paul's Universalist Church in Meriden. (Bachrach Photo.) Lillian A. Nelson Becomes Bride Of Ben H. Southland Mr. and Mrs.

John B. Nelson of Plantsville announce the marriage of their daughter, Miss Lillian A. Nelson to Lieutenant (jg) Ben H. Southland. of Mr.

and Mrs. Ben J. Southland Beverly Hills. which took place on Saturday. October 30, at Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

Mrs. Southland is a graduate of the Bristol schools and attended the College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle. N. Y. She is connected with the Nelson's Screw Machine Products of Plantsville.

Lieutenant Southland, attended Beverly Hills High and was graduated from the University of Southern California where he studled architecture. He has been the Southwest Pacific for the paste 10 months and has returned to sub-chaser training center at Miami, for further training. Mrs. Southland will return to Plantsville after Lieutenant Southland completes his training and returns to duty. Dr.

and Mrs. James King of Lowell, will be the holiday guests of their son and daughterin-law, Rev. and Mrs. Harold G. King of Farmington.

Dr. Amanda L. Stoughton of Washington, D. will be the holiday guest of her brother-in-law and sister. Dr.

and Mrs. Dwight L. Stoughton of Westland Avenue, West Hartford. Mr. Curtis H.

Alvord. Jr. a student at Westminster School. Simsbury, will spend the holidays with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Curtis H. Alvord of Birch Road, West Hartford. Mrs. Arthur F. Peaslee of Van Buren Avenue, West Hartford, spent several days this week in New York.

Mrs. Henry Rowe of "Valley Brook." West Granby, will spend the Thanksgiving holidays with Mr. and Mrs. William Hill of Providence, R. I.

Mrs. Paul M. Phillips of Smallwood Road, West Hartford, will return today after spending the week end in Boston, as the guest of the Misses Mabel and Maude Phillips. Mrs. Phi lips was a delegate this week to the council meeting of the New England Federation of Women's Clubs which was held at the Stater.

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph C. Fulton of West Center Street, Manchester, are spending three days in New York, in celebration of their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary on November 18. Mrs.

Fulton is a member of the staff of the Hartford Courant in Manchester, and Mr. Fulton has been with the Connecticut Trans portation Company for twentyseven years. Mr. and Mrs. Robert E.

Hall of Haviland Road. Bloomfield, will be the guests for Thanksgiving of their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Donald C. Waite.

at their home in Larchmont, N. Y. Miss Jean Fay, a student at Connecticut College, New London, will have as her guests over the Thanksgiving recess. Ann Phillips of Cleveland, Ohio, Miss Nancy Newey of Chicago, Miss Joan Hickey of New York, N. Phyllis M.

O'Grady of Paterson, N. at the home of her parents. Dr. and Mrs. William J.

Fay of Collins Street. Mr. and Mrs. E. Clayton Gengras of Orchard Road.

West Hartford. announce the birth of a son. Clayton Gengras, Jr. on November 2 at the Hartford Hospital. Mr.

and Mrs. William J. Gabb Jr. (former Georgia Smith, have returned from their wedding trip which they spent at Mayflower Inn, Washington, Conn, Mr. and Mrs.

Albert Ormono Saart and children, Albert Jr. anc Richard J. Saart of Mohawk Drive West Hartford. will leave on Wednesday to spend the holiday week end as the guests of her mother Mrs. Beryl Joslin of Providence, R.I Miss Van Dyke, Harold N.

Wessel Of Army, Engaged Mrs. Harry Haymond of Asvlum Avenue. West Hartford. announces the engagement of her daughter, Miss Virginia L. Van Dyke, to Private First Class Harold Niels Wessel.

son of Mr. and Mrs. William Wessel of Long Island and New York. Miss Van Dyke was a student at Mary A. Burnham School for Girls, Northampton, and was graduated from Fairfax Hall.

Waynesboro, Va. She studied drama and arts at Bennington College, Bennington. and attended Colby Junior College, New London, N. H. She is a member of Delta Psi Omega, dramatic fraternity.

PFC Wessel was graduated from Columbia University in the class of 1941 and is a member of Nu Sigma Nu fraternity. He is now a student at Cornell University Medical Collego at New York Hospital under the Army Specialized Training Program. Following his graduation he will interne at Cooperstown, N. Y. Mr.

and Mrs. Henry W. Schorer and Mrs. May Schorer of Walbridge Road. West Hartford, Mr.

and Mrs. Brinton Schorer and children of Newington, and Mrs. James L. Gilligan of Stamford, will be the guests for Thanksgiving of Mrs. Schorer's mother, Mrs.

Herbert E. Thatcher of Branford. Mrs. Alfred C. Fuller of Colony Road, West Hartford, served on the gift booth at the bazar given last week by the Canadian Women's Club of New York at the SavoyPlaza.

Mr. Fuller joined her for the week end. Mr. and Mrs. John Dustin Locke "Lockeslea." West Granby, will entertain at dinner on Thanksgiving Day.

Among their guests. will be Mrs. E. G. Armstrong, Dr.

and Mrs. H. L. F. Locke, Mrs.

Cornelio de Kanter and her son, and Mr. Arthur Entress. Corporal Justus W. Paul. recently returned from active duty in Hawaii, has returned to his new he has "en entered Officers' Training station Camp Hood.

where School in the Tank Destroyer's Unit: He recently was home on furlough with his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Justus W. of Whiting Lane, West Hartford.

Mrs. Guy Wells. of Hickory Lane. West Hartford, traveling in the south for the winter. Miss Marcia, Wadhams, daughter of Mr.

Dwight Wadhams of Bloomfield will the holidays from the University of Connecticut with her parents. Miss Woodruff, John Moriarty Engaged To Wed Dr. and Mrs. Woodruff of Manchester announce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Margaret Woodruff, to Lieutenant John Carleton Moriarty, son of Mr. and Mrs.

J. F. Moriarty of Manchester. Miss Woodruff, is a graduate of Manchester School and Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pa. She is now a graduate assistant at the University of Connecticut.

Lieutenant Moriarty was graduated from Manchester High School. the University of Connecticut and the Infantry School at Fort Benning, Ga. He is at present stationed in Alabama. Mr. and Mrs.

C. Masor of Fairview Drive. Wethersfield, wil have as their guests for the holi day week end, Mr. and Mrs. H.

Crandall Mason of Cambridge Miss Betty Richardson Mount Sunapee, N. Mrs. Wil liam H. Mason. Wethersfield.

and Mr. and Mrs. Peter Robert Saue of Staten Island, N. Y. Mr.

and Mrs. Blair J. Wormer Foxcroft Road. West Hartford, wil have as their guests for th Thanksgiving week end, Mrs. Wor mer's sister, Miss Helen Homer an Miss Nell Peterson of Mount Ver non, N.

Y. Cadet Robert McCutch Aviation. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrenc V.

McCutcheon of Keeney Avenue West Hartford, has returned to studies at Grove City College, P. after spending a leave with his pa rents. MISS MARGARET WOODRUFF Miss Woodruff, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Watson Woodruff of Manchester, is engaged to Lieutenant John Carleton Moriarty, son of Mr.

and Mrs. J. F. Moriarty of Manchester. (Chidnoff.