Sunday, January 21, 2018

JOHNSON - MORGAN WEDDING 1955


JOHNSON – MORGAN WEDDING

REHOBOTH BEACH

AUGUST 1955


Miss Barbara Elizabeth Johnson, daughter of Delaware State Senator and Mrs Thomas I.Johnson of Rehoboth Beach, was wed to Joseph Edward Morgan, son of Mr. and Mrs  William J. Morgan of Rehoboth Beach, September 8th, in Westminster Presbyterian Church by the pastor Rev. Dr. William Drysdale Gibson.

The bride was given in marriage by her father.

Maid of honor was Miss Nancy Lowe of Glen Falls, New York. Bridesmaids were Miss
Virginia Walter of Wilmington and Miss Frances Clendaniel of Miltom, Barbara's
classmates at the Beebe School of Nursing in Lewes and Mrs Robert Parker of
Harrington.

Mr. William Morgan was his sons best man. Ushers were Robert Van Pelt, John Papajohn,
Walter Messick and James Joseph, all of Rehoboth.

Mrs Melvin W. Fell of Rehoboth Beach played the wedding music and Mrs. Harvey Groff
of Lewes was solo singer.

A reception was held at Rehoboth Country Club following the ceremony.

A rehearsal dinner for the wedding party was held by the brides parents at the Ocean House
on Lewes Beach on Tuesday the 6th. A breakfast party by Mrs Frank Swezey and daughter
Joan of Wilmington at the Ocean house, a luncheon at the Rehoboth Country Club by Mrs
G. M. Wiltbank and Mrs Irvin Burton and a bridal shower by Mrs James Beebe and Mrs.
Ernest VanPelt at the Beebe home at Lewes, a bridesmaid lunch at the Dinner Bell Inn
were also held the week of the wedding.

Miss Johnson is a graduate of Beebe School of Nursing 1955 class in Lewes and a 1952
graduate of Rehoboth High School.

Mr Morgan is a 1951 Rehoboth High graduate and University of Delaware in 1956.




Abstract January 21, 2018, Harrison H. of Wilmington News Journal Wednesday,
17 August 1955.



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