LETRA ROBBINS AND MAURICE J. CHURCH

CHURCH-ROBBINS MARRIAGE HELD AT SMITHVILLE JULY 15

(1936)

   Announcements have been received here of the marriage Wednesday, July 15, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Robbins at Smithville of their daughter, Letra, to Maurice J. Church of Oxford, son of Mrs. Fannie Church, and proprietor of the Church Lumber Company.

   The Rev. Ivan N. Cash, pastor of the Baptist church of Smithville, performed the ceremony using the ring service.  The home was attractively decorated in pink and blue, using delphineum, coreopsis, gypsophilia and pink and blue larkspur.

   The bride wore a gown of pink silk organdie and carried a bouquet of pink roses and sweet peas.  The matron of honor, Mrs. Norman Wallace of Syracuse, sister of the bride, wore a gown of blue crepe and carried a bouquet of white sweet peas.  Norman Wallace was best man.

   A reception was held following the ceremony at the bride's home, after which Mr. and Mrs. Church left for a ten-day trip through New England to Bar Harbor, Maine.

   Mrs. Church is a graduate of Adams high school and Potsdam Normal.  She has been a member of the faculty of Oxford Academy for the past ten years.  Mr. Church is a veteran of the navy and following the death of his father, the late Charles Church, he assumed control of the Church Lumber Company, which he has successfully operated.

   Those from here who attended the wedding were Mr. and Mrs. Lynn Seymour, Mrs. Fannie Church and Miss Etta Amos.

NOTE:  THE DATE WAS HAND-WRITTEN ON THE ARTICLE.