BioM: LaPointe, Ida (1938)

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Surnames: LaPointe, Hoover, Lang, Schermetler, Nelson, Martins, Lee, Kelley

----Sources: Colby Phonograph (Colby, Clark County, Wis.) 08/25/1938

LaPointe, Ida (Marriage - 20 Aug. 1938)

In a ceremony performed Saturday morning at St. Mary’s Catholic church in Colby, the Rev. Father Leo J. Lang officiating, Miss Ida LaPointe and A. E. Hoover, Unity residents, were united in marriage. Mrs. Edward Schermetler, Marshfield, and Harold Nelson, Wisconsin Rapids, attended the couple.

The bride wore an ensemble of luggage tan, with a corsage of tea roses and rust pompoms, and her attendant wore navy blue.

The ceremony was followed by a wedding breakfast for the immediate families at the home of the bride’s mother. Mrs. J. Martins, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Lee, Minneapolis, and Neil Kelley, Marshfield, were out of town guests.

Upon their return from a wedding trip to Minneapolis and Duluth, Mr. and Mrs. Hoover will reside with the bride’s mother. They will be at home to friends after September 1st.