MARRIAGE: Virgil B. JENNINGS to Elsie B. YETTER, 1918, Dauphin County, PA

Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by JudyBoo

Copyright 2008.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/dauphin/
_________________________________________ 

Social

YOUNG COUPLE WED IN CAMP LEE
Sergeant Jennings and Miss Yetter Married in Real Military Style

  A military wedding of much interest to Harrisburg people, and 
attended by a large number of Harrisburg boys of the 35th Company, 
155th Depot Brigade, Camp Lee, Va., took place June 17, at 7.30 o'clock 
p.m., in the reception room of the company at Camp Lee, when Miss Elsie 
Blanche Yetter and Sergeant Virgil B. Jennings, both of Harrisburg, 
were married with the Rev. Dr. Lewis M. Roper, pastor of the First 
Baptist Church, Petersburg, Va., officiating.
  The reception room presented a festive air, decorated with quantities 
of ferns and wild flowers and brilliant with many American flags and 
red, white and blue bunting.  Miss Clara Hays, of Petersburg, played 
the wedding march and before the ceremony, William Boyer, the well-
known Harrisburg baritone, who is one of the boys at Camp Lee, sang, 
"Oh Promise Me."
  The bride, who was given in marriage by Lieutenant Joe W. Lee, was 
attended by Mrs. Norman Wuchner, of Charleston, W. Va., as matron of 
honor.  Lieutenant Frank L. Myers was best man.  Following the ceremony 
a reception and dinner were given in honor of the bride and bridegroom 
at which Clarence Walters presented the wedding gifts with a speech in 
behalf of the boys.
  Guests at the wedding and reception included:  Miss Clara Hays, Miss 
Sallie D. Hays, Miss Alice Lee Mason, Mrs. J. W. Hays, all of 
Petersburg, Va.; Captain Robert E. Lea, 35th Co., 9th Tr. Bn.; First 
Lieutenant Frank L. Myers, 35th Co., 9th Tr. Bn.; Second Lieutenants 
Joe W. Lee, Robert B. Rose, W. H. Smith, Jr., C. M. Myers, C. R. 
Fadeley, R. E. Brashear, J. J. Vincent, Francis B. Vanderveen, Hollen 
and Jay Garman; Lieutenants C. K. Hunter and W. M. Spears, and the 
following Harrisburg boys in training at the camp:  Corporals V. B. 
Jennings and Ira C. Kindler, Privates William H. Boyer, Roy V. Buller, 
Clarence E. Hollenbaugh; Harry B. Mateer, Raymond and Robert C. 
Michael, Clarence C. Walters; Private Merle Coue, of the military 
police, Acting Sergeant Major Charles Steinert.

The Evening News, Harrisburg, Penna., Friday, June 21, 1918