Lincoln Parish Louisiana Archives 
Marriages.....Thompson, Julia Marie - Jimmerson, William Allen August 20 1950



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The Ruston Daily Leader, September 6, 1950
Louisiana Tech Graduates Exchange Nuptial Vows in Jonesboro Church
   White baskets of white gladioli and white tuberoses with slender burning 
white tapers in branched candelabra formed a beautiful scene for the wedding of 
Miss Julia Marie Thompson and Mr. William A. Jimerson in the Jonesboro 
Methodist Church Sunday afternoon August 20, at one-thirty o'clock.
   While the guests were being seated by the ushers, Charles Thompson and W. H. 
Jones, Jr., Mrs. Howard Hearne at the organ played a program of nuptial music.  
She rendered "Consolation" by Mendelssohn and "Serenade" by Shubert while Miss 
Katherine Jimerson soster of the briedgroom lighted the candles.  Miss 
Jimerson's dress was of ice blue organdy.  She wore a bandeaux of blue asters 
in her hair.  The long slender tapers were artistically decorated with lacy 
rosettes centered with soft satin bows and a miniature wedding bell.  Mrs. 
Hearne accompanied by Mrs S O Sommers who sang beautifuly "Because" by 
d'Hardelot, and "Always" by Irving Berlin. "Traumeral" by Shuman was softly 
played while Rev. A. A. McKnight, pastor of the church heard the double ring 
wedding vows.  Traditional wedding marches were played for the processional and 
recessional.
   The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Thompson of Jonesboro and 
the bridegroom is the son of Mr. Dave Jimerson and the late Mrs. Jimerson of 
Quitman.  Both are graduates of Louisiana Tech.
   The bride's only attendant was Mrs. W. H. Jones Jr., who served as matron of 
honor.  Mrs. Jones was becomingly attired in a soft pink organdy over taffeta 
with a fitted bodice and ballerina length full skirt, soft pink ribbon at the 
waist line,  She carried a colonial bouquet made of rows of pink and blue 
asters and one pink aster was placed in the center, ruffled in blue maline 
cascades of satin ribbon streamers.
   The bride, entering on the arm of her father who gave her in marriage, was 
lovely for her wedding in a boufant ballerina length skirt of white shadow 
organdy over white taffeta which fell in folds.  The fitted bodice of Chantilly 
lace featured a sweetheart neckline and little cap sleeves edged in dainty lace.
   The chapel length veil of French diaphanous illusion flowed from a juliet 
brocaded cap.  Her pointed mitts were of sheer organdy and she chose slippers 
of white satin.  For her flowers she carrried garlands of white tuberoses, 
clustered on the white Bible and topped with a specimen white orchid from which 
fell white streamers caught with maline and tuberoses.
   For something old she wore a broach belonging to her great, great, great 
grandmother and for something borrowed she carried a dainty lace handkerchief.
   Mr John Earl Jimerson, brother of the bridegroom, served as best man.
   For her daughter's wedding Mrs. Thompson chose a black sheer dress and her 
corsage was of white carnations and tuberoses.
   Mrs. Cora Vail, grandmother of the groom, was becomingly attired in a soft 
green crepe dress.  Her corsage was of white carnations and tuberoses.
   Immeadiatly following the wedding a reception was held in the home of the 
brides parents in Jonesboro.  The bride's table was laid with a lovely handmade 
cut work cloth centered with a crystal bowl of white carnations and white 
asters, interspersed with maiden hair fern and flanked on either side with 
crystal candle holders of slender burning tapers artistically decorated with 
lacy medallions and centered with satin bows of ribbon holding miniature 
wedding bells.
   The three tiered wedding confection embossed in soft pink rosebuds and 
topped with a miniature bried and groom was placed at one end of the table.  
The crystal punch bowl was on the other.
   Miss Effie Smart poured the punch and Mrs. W. H. Jones Jr., served the cake 
to the guests after it had been cut by the bride and bridegroom.  Mrs. A. L. 
Weeks presided over the gifts and Mrs. Katherine Jimerson had charge of the 
bride's book while Mrs. Earnest Bishop and Mrs. J. Briehn assisted with the 
other courtesies of the afternoon.
   Throughout the reception rooms white gladioli and white carnations and ferns 
were used at intervals.  The piano held the bride's boquet on one end and in 
the center was a lovely arrangement of white carnations and tuberoses and on 
the other end the matron of honor boquet.
   Later when the couple left for a short wedding trip Mrs. Jimerson was 
wearing a becoming figured taffeta suit with tiny covered buttons gracefully 
down the front of the jacket.  She pinned the orchid corsage with her boquet on 
her shoulder and her accessories were white.  The couple will make their home 
on North Cooper Street in Jonesboro.

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