BioM: Erwin, Beulah Lee (1939)
Contact:  Crystal Wendt

Surnames: Erwin, Lindow, Briggs, Brockel, Wilcox, Hacker, Schilling, Barber, Turrock

----Sources: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark County, Wis.) Thurs., 23 March 1939

Erwin, Beulah Lee (Marriage - 11 March 1939)* Could be off.

At a beautiful wedding service at Wesley M. E. Church, Milwaukee Saturday, Miss Beulah Lee Erwin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Erwin, North 34th Street, Milwaukee, exchanged wedding vows with Lester H. Lindow, son of Mr. and Mrs. August Lindow, Chili.

The service was read at 4 p.m. by Dr. Charles A. Briggs. The bridal party proceeded to the altar to the strains of Lohengren’s wedding march played by Mrs. Barber.

The bride, who was given in marriage by her father, wore an ivory satin, floor-length dress with accessories. Her finger-tip veil was caught by a crown of tulle and pearls; she carried a shower bouquet of white sweet shower bouquet of white sweet peas and iris. She was attended by her sister, Mrs. Phyllis Erwin as maid of honor, who wore a pastel blue princess style, floor-length dress with matching slippers. Miss Ruth Brockel, Milwaukee and Miss Vivian Wilcox of Avoca were bridesmaids, each wearing pastel peach princess floor-length dresses with matching slippers, each of the attendants carried a colonial bouquet of talisman roses surrounded by forget-me-nots, carnations and sweet peas and wore talisman roses in their hair and a blue and gold brooch at the neck line.

The best man was Ross Hacker of Forest Junction, Wis.; cousin of the groom. Ushers were Marion Lee, Chili, cousin of the bride and Marlyn Lindow, Chili, cousin of the groom.

Following the ceremony, Mr. Lindow and bride greeted friends at the church and later dinner was served to the bridal party and guest in the church parlors.

Mrs. Lindow was graduated from West Division high school and Spencerian Business College, Milwaukee. She has been employed as private secretary by Charles Turrock for the past two years.

Mr. Lindow spent his entire life at Chili, where he had been engaged with his father at farming. He has rented a farm near his former home, where he and his bride will reside.

Guests from out of town attending the wedding were Mrs. Aug. Lindow, Chili; Mrs. F. L. Schilling, Granton; Robert Lee, Chili, and Mr. and Mrs. Ava Lee of Granton.