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- Event: Military WWII -- Royal Canadian Naval Reserve -- rank of LeadingSeaman
Toronto Star (ON) -- 29 Aug 1945
ARBOUR-VETTERS
St Brigid's Roman Catholic Church on Saturday morning, 25 Aug, was the setting for a pretty wedding when Jean Margaret Vetters, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Vetters, became the bride of LS William Stephen Arbour, RCNVR, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Arbour. Father Marshmann officiated. Given in marriage by her father, the bride was gowned in white slipper satin, made on the torso lines. A Mary Stuart headdress caught herfingertip veil. She carried a cascade of red roses and white gladioli.As maid of honor, Wren Dorothy J. Johnstone wore an orchid dress. The bridesmaids, Misses Betty Radcliffe and Marion Pearen, were in lime green similar in style to the bridal gown. All wore matching headdresses and carried cascades of pink roses and mixed flowers. Flt-Sergt John McMullin was groomsman, and ushers were Gordon Arbour, brother of the groom, and LS James Mumford, RCNVR. At a reception at Maloney's Art Gallery, the bride's mother received wearing a dress of pearl grey silk mesh, accented with a corsage of fuscia sweet peas. Also receiving was the groom's mother in a beige two-piece printed dress with corsage of lemon and salmon inned gladioli. For the wedding trip to Detroit and Northern Ontario, the bride donned a dressmaker suit in powder blue shade with brown accessories. The couple will live in Toronto.
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1922 - 1993 (71 ans)
