BioM: Herrick, Lucille #2 (1942)

Contact: Crystal Wendt
Email: crystal@wiclarkcountyhistory.org  

Surnames: Herrick, Hawley, Munson, Smith, Peterson, Foreman

----Sources: The Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark County, Wis.) 1 Oct. 1942

Herrick, Lucille (Marriage - 17 Sept. 1942)

Greenwood - Mr. and Mrs. Jack Herrick of Willard announce the marriage of their daughter, Lucille, of Aitkin, Minn., to Harold F. Hawley, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gus. Hawley, also of Aitkin. The Rev. H. Munson read the nuptial service in the Methodist Church at Aitkin at 2 p.m. on Thursday, September 17.

Special music was provided by Mrs. Botille E. Smith, violinist, and Mrs. Royce V. Peterson, pianist. Large baskets of garden flowers were used for decorations.

Miss Marguerite Hawley and William T. Foreman were the only attendants.

The bride was attired in a soldier blue dress of light weight wool, with brown accessories. Her corsage was fashioned of yellow rose buds, asters and sweet peas. Miss Hawley wore brown velvets with rust colored accessories, and her corsage was similar to the bride’s.

A reception was held fro the couple Friday evening at the home of the bride’s parents in Willard.

The bride had been employed as a waitress at the Beacon Arch hotel in Aitkin since January, and the groom, who graduated from the Aitkin high school in 1930, is a contract hauler. They will make their home in Aitkin. On September 8 a prenuptial shower was held for the couple at the home of the groom’s house.