MARRIAGE: Carl Dean KEPHART to Shirley Jane BRUA, 1948, Blair County, PA

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MR. AND MRS. CARL KEPHART
Couple Wed In Baptist Church

  Miss Shirley Jane Brua, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Irvin K. Brua of 604 Jones 
street, Hollidaysburg, became the bride of Carl Dean Kephart, son of Mr. and 
Mrs. Dean E. Kephart of 1116 Third avenue, Duncansville, in the First Baptist 
church of Hollidaysburg on Saturday afternoon, July 24, at 4.30 o'clock.  Rev. 
William Cutler, pastor of the church, officiated at the ceremony assisted by 
Rev. Norman R. Wagner, pastor of the Hicks Memorial Methodist church of 
Duncansville.
  The church was decorated with ferns, candelabra and bouquets of pink and white 
gladiola. An archway with a large white bell was decorated with small flowers 
and blue lights. Miss Mildred Heller, soloist, sang "O Promise Me" and "I Love 
You Truly, on the organ by Miss Charlotte Kunzig.
  The bride, given in marriage by her father, wore a street-length dress of 
white crepe with a large white picture hat and white accessories. She carried a 
white Bible decorated with white ribbons and a white gardenia corsage.
  Mrs. Naomi Mitchell, sister of the bride, was matron of honor attired in an 
aqua crepe dress with white accessories and a large white picture hat. She 
carried a colonial bouquet of pink and white mixed flowers.
  The best man was Rev. Daniel Koon of Duncansville, a cousin of the bridegroom. 
Ushers were Paul Mitchell and Melvin Benson, both of Duncansville.
  The mother of the bride wore a navy blue dress with white accessories and a 
corsage of pink carnations. The mother of the bridegroom wore a dress of navy 
blue with white accessories and a pink carnation corsage.
  The couple left on a ten-day wedding trip through seven western states and 
around the Great Lakes. They are residing temporarily at the home of the 
bridegroom's parents in Duncansville.
  Both Mr. and Mrs. Kephart are graduates of the Hollidaysburg High school. The 
bridegroom is an employe of the Hoffman Sealtest dairy in Altoona.

Altoona Mirror, Monday, August 9, 1948, page 14