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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