MARRIAGE: R. Dean REPLOGLE to Anna Pauline RITCHEY, 1948, Blair County, PA

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Roaring Spring Couple Is Wed

  The First Church of the Brethren in Roaring Spring was the scene of a 
beautiful candle-light wedding on Saturday evening, June 26, at 7 o'clock 
when Miss Anna Pauline Ritchey, R.N., daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Ritchey 
of 534 East Main street, Roaring Spring, became the bride of R. Dean 
Replogle, son of Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Replogle of 422 Cherry street, Roaring 
Spring. Rev. H Rhoades officiated using the impressive double-ring ceremony. 
The church was decorated with ferns, white lilies and delphiniums.
  Preceding the ceremony Ethel Mae Metzer presided at the organ, playing a 
short recital of favorite selections of the bridal couple. She accompanied 
Miss Thelma, Ritchey, sister of the bride, who sang "Because."
  The bride, given in marriage by her father, was lovely in a light blue 
street length dress with white accessories and wore a corsage of red 
rosebuds. Miss Margaret Ritchey, sister of the bride, was maid of honor, 
attired in a gray street-length dress with white accessories and a corsage of 
red rosebuds.
  Donald Replogle, brother of the bridegroom, served as best man and the 
ushers were John Ritchey, brother of the bride, and Thomas Sell, a cousin of 
the bridegroom.
  The mother of the bride chose a flowered navy dress with matching 
accessories and a corsage of pink rosebuds. The mother of the bridegroom wore 
a navy dress with white accessories and a corsage of pink rosebuds.
  A reception followed the ceremony at the home of the bride for the wedding 
party and immediate families. The bride's gift to her attendants were gold 
bracelets and the bridegroom's gifts were a billfold to his best man and gold 
tie clasps to the ushers.
  The bride is a graduate of the Replogle High school, class of 1944, the 
Windber hospital school of nursing, graduating in 1947. She is now a member 
of the nursing staff of the Nason hospital in Roaring Spring. The bridegroom 
is a graduate of the Roaring Spring High school, class of 1944, and is a 
veteran of World war II, having spent 10 months in the ETO with the Army Air 
force. He is now employed at the D. M. Bare Paper company.
  Following the reception the couple left for a wedding trip to New York. 
They will reside at the home of the bridegroom for the present.	

Altoona Mirror, Saturday, July 10, 1948, page 9