MARRIAGE:   COON-CALDWELL NUPTIAL READ AT CARBONDALE 
Miss Alice Caldwell, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Caldwell, 512 south
Beveridge Street, Carbondale became the bride of Ronald Coon, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Everett Coon, Rossville at high noon , Sunday June 15, 1941 at the home
of the bride's great aunts, Misses Grace and rose Perry, 513 South Beveridge
Street, Carbondale.
	Dr. M. S. Harvey, pastor of the First Methodist Church, Carbondale read the
single ring ceremony before the Mantel which was a profusion of White lilies
and other white garden flowers, intermingled with ferns and palms and lighted
by tall tapers in white candelabra.  Only immediate families and close friends
of the bride were present for the ceremony. 
	The bride was dressed in a blue sheer ensemble with coat and wore a white hat
made of gardenias and petals, with white accessories. Her flowers were a
corsage of white sweet peas and gladioli. 
	Preceding the ceremony a fifteen minute piano recital was given by Miss Lucy
Parrish who played " Star Dust" by Carmichael.  "Because" by D. Hardelot, " At
Dawning" by Cadman and " Sweetest Story Ever Told" By Stults. The bridal
chorus by Wagner was played as the wedding march. 
	After the ceremony the wedding cake was cut and served with ice cream, Misses
Eva Millligan and Elizabeth Merwin serving. Betty Holiday, Virginia Gordon and
Betty Hagler, cousins of the bride and Mildred Milligan also assisted in
serving. 
	Mr. and Mrs. Coon departed shortly after the ceremony for a wedding trip
after which they will be at home at 11 S. Eastern Ave., Joliet. 
	Mrs. Coon has always made her home in Carbondale and is a graduate of the
Carbondale Community high school and received her degree from the Southern
Illinois Normal University in 19238. Since that time she taught school one
year in new Burnside and for the past two years in the Rossville Grade school.
	Mr. Coon attended the University of Illinois at Champaign and is now employed
by the government as a Material checker of the Wilmington Plant. 
	Out of town guests included Mr. and Mrs. Everett Coon and son Willard of
Rossville , Parents and brother of the bridegroom, Mrs. Frank Caldwell of
Junction city, Kansas, grandmother of the bride, Mrs. Oscar Koch of Ft.
Benning, Ga.  Aunt of the bride, Miss Rosana Veach of Vienna, Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Yarbrouogh of Cairo and Mrs. And Mrs. Wm. McGinnis of St. Louis
Missouri. 
	A wedding dinner was served for the family at the home of the bride's
parents.


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