BioM: Webster, JoAnn (1956)

Contact: Dolores Mohr Kenyon

Email: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 
 

Surnames: Webster, Dorsey, Yeager, Mullenix, Hagan, Burdick, McCoy, Cooper 
 

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI.) June 14, 1956 
 

Webster, JoAnn (Marriage - 10 June 1956) 
 

Miss JoAnn Webster of Neillsville became the bride of Jerry Dorsey of Everett, Wash., in a double ring ceremony performed Sunday afternoon by the Rev. James Cooper, pastor of the Mission Church at Greenwood. 
 

Parents of the couple are Mr. and Mrs. Homer Webster of Neillsville and Mr. and Mrs. Glen Dorsey of Everett, Wash. 
 

The bride wore a traditional white floor length taffeta dress with a veil. She carried a bouquet of red roses and lily of the valley.  Mrs. Donald Yeager, sister of the bride, of Chippewa Falls, served as her matron of honor, and Miss Carolyn Mullenix of Wild Rose was bridesmaid. 
 

The groom was attended by Donald Yeager as best man.  Lee Hagan of Vermont and Merle Burdick of New York, fellow students at Wheaton College, Ill., were ushers.  
 

A wedding reception for approximately 50 guests was held on the lawn of the Missionary Baptist Church at Greenwood. 
 

They left on a wedding trip to Bemidji, Minn., where they will visit the bride’s uncle and aunt, and will then drive across northern Wisconsin into Michigan, where they will spend a few days with her grandfather.  They will then drive on to Ashtabula, O., where the groom will be employed for the summer and the bride will have charge of a small Bible camp. 
 

The bride is a graduate of the Neillsville High School and has spent two years at the Moody Bible Institute.  The groom is a graduate of the Bible Institute and has spent a year at Wheaton College. 
 

At the close of the marriage ceremony a short consecration service was held since the two young people have dedicated their lives to the Mission field.  And plan, when their training is complete to serve under the African Inland Mission in Kenya, Africa. 
 

Out of town relatives attending the wedding were Mr. and Mrs. J. B. McCoy, Crivitz; and Miss Dawn Dorsey, Everett, Wash. a sister of the groom.