BioM: Brunner, Catherine (1950)

Contact: Stan
Email: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Gunsteen, Brunner, Noonan, Engel

----Source: THORP COURIER (Thorp, Clark County, Wis.) 06/01/1950

-Brunner, Catherine (Marriage - 6 MAY 1950)

Catherine Noonan Brunner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jos. Noonan of Gilman, became the bride of Clarence Gunsteen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Gunsteen of Gilman, in a ceremony performed by Father Dzurko at SS Peter and Paul Catholic Church at Gilman at ten o’clock Saturday morning, May 6th, 1950.

The bride was beautifully attired in a gown of pink slipper satin and white lace. She wore a fingertip veil and wreath of white rosebuds and lilies of the valley and carried a prayer book and streamer of white and pink rosebuds.

Thoams Noonan, brother of the bride, attended the groom while Louis Noonan and Rose Engel, attired in yellow and aqua embroidered gowns, served as bridesmaids. Evelyn Noonan, matron of honor, wore a blue eyelet embroidered dress. Daniel Gunsteen and LeRoy Gunsteen were ushers.

Little Kathy Ann Brunner served as flower girl.

A reception was held at Koolman’s Club at Gilman after the ceremony and a wedding dance was enjoyed by friends and relatives in the evening at the Thorp American legion Hall.

The couple spent their honeymoon in Red Wing and Winona, Minn., and LaCrosse, Wis., and will make their future home in Chicago, where the groom is employed with the International Harvester Co. at Melrose Park.

Out of town guests at the wedding were: Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Gunsteen of Elmwood Park, Ill., Ed Gunsteen and children, Mrs. Mardell Feneary and Miss Dorothy Gunsteen of Chicago and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Kieffer of Mauston, Wis.