BioM: Stremikis, Virginia Mae (1956)

Contact: Dolores Mohr Kenyon

Email: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 
 

Surnames: Stremikis, Gilbertson, Berg, Gasparac, Greening, Papacek, Sutton, Guden, Milleville  
 

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI.) June 28, 1956 
 

Stremikis, Virginia (Marriage - 23 June 1956) 
 

Rev. E. Milleville, pastor of the Grace Lutheran Church at Nasonville, performed the double ring ceremony at 8:15 p.m. Saturday evening, in which Virginia Mae Stremikis of Willard became the bride of Vernon Melvin Gilbertson of Marshfield.  The wedding vows were repeated before an altar decorated with two large baskets of white gladioli, bouquets of flowers, ferns and candelabra.  The pews were marked with white satin ribbons, candelabra and mixed garden flowers.  A white aisle carpet completed the church decorations. 
 

The bride, approaching the altar on the arm of her father, wore a gown of white Chantilly lace over satin, which was fashioned with a fitted princess bodice, with an illusion neckline with iridescents tracing the yoke and collar.  Long tapering sleeves came to a point at the wrists.  The bouffant skirt of lace over satin, extended into a sweeping train; her finger-tip veil was held in place by a pill box cap, decorated with seed pearls and sequins. 
 

She carried a white orchid on a white Bible.  The orchid was surrounded by a dozen white rose buds and white streamers. 
 

A sister of the bride, Mrs. Percy Berg of Strum, was matron of honor.  Miss Mae Gasparac and Miss Virginia Greening, friends, were her bridesmaids.  Marianne Papacek, cousin of the bride, from Fox Lake, Ill., was flower girl. 
 

The groom was attended by Percy Berg of Strum as bestman, and by Leonard Gilbertson of Appleton, and Warren Sutton of Marshfield as groomsmen.  Philip Guden and Arthur Guden, friends of the groom, ushered. 
 

A reception for 200 guests was held in the church parlors.  The young couple left on a two-week wedding trip to northern Wisconsin and Canada.  On their return they will reside on Route 1, Chili. 
 

The bride is a graduate of the Wisconsin State Teachers College at Eau Claire and has been teaching at the Blackberry School.  The groom has been employed at the Rollohome Corporation at Marshfield and operates a farm.