Surnames: Bart, LaPorte, Nyysti, Bart

----Source: OWEN ENTERPRISE (Owen, Clark County, Wis.) 01/16/1947

LaPorte, Dorothy (11 JAN 1947)

At 10 o’clock on Saturday evening, Jan. 11th, 1947, Miss Dorothy LaPorte, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George LaPorte of Manitowish, became the bride of William E. Bart, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Bart of Manitowish, at a candlelight service. The bride was given away by her father.

The ceremony was read at Chippewa Falls in Christ Episcopal Church by Fr. Ortmayer.

The bride wore an aqua wool dress with black accessories and a corsage of sweetheart roses.

The couple was attended by Mr. and Mrs. Philip Nyysti, sister of the groom. She wore an aqua wool suit with black accessories and a corsage of white mums.

The mother witnessed her daughter’s wedding in a green suit and black accessories, and wore a corsage of white mums.

The mother of the groom wore a black dress and black accessories, and a corsage of bronze mums.

After the ceremony the bridal party was entertained by Rev. and Mrs. Ronald Ortmayer, a close friend of the groom, to a buffet luncheon.

The bride is a graduate of the Hurley High School in the class of 1945, and later took a course in electronics and teletype at Minneapolis.

The groom is a graduate of the Owen (Clark Co., Wis.) High School in the class of 1941, and later enlisted in the Seabees, serving two years in the states and two years in the Pacific Theatre.

They will make their home at Manitowish Waters, Wis., where the groom is in the electrical and refrigeration business.