Surnames: Ruesch, Merwin, Pauloweit, Thompson, Wesle

----Source: Abbotsford Tribune (Abbotsford, Clark County, Wis.) 12/30/1943

Ruesch, Frances (Marriage - 28 Dec. 1943)

Marriage vows between Miss Frances Ruesch, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Earnest Ruesch, Medford, and Harold Merwin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Merwin, Abbotsford, were exchanged on Tuesday afternoon, Dec. 28, in the Community Evangelical church of Medford. The service was read at 2:00 o’clock by the Rev. G. E. Pauloweit in the presence of immediate relatives and friends of the bridal couple.

A frock of pink wool jersey was chosen for the occasion by the bride. Her sister, Miss Marian Ruesch, of Medford, wore lime green wool jersey. Both wore corsages of gardenias and black accessories.

Cpl. Maurice Thompson, a former service buddy of the groom, was best man.

A reception followed the ceremony and a wedding supper was served to 12 guests at the home of the bride’s parents. In the evening a wedding dance was held at Cherokee. The young couple left on a wedding trip to Park Falls.

The bride, who is a graduate of the Taylor County Normal, is teaching the Cleveland school near Medford. The groom, who is a farmer, is driving truck in a lumber camp near Hurley for the winter.

Among the guests, besides the immediate families, who were present for the wedding and reception, were the groom’s grand mother, Mrs. Emily Merwin, Abbotsford, and Miss Florence Wesle, of Medford.