Kearney-DeCock wedding

KEARNEY, DECOCK, CROWLEY, TROY, MCCORMICK, DESCHEPPAR, MCMANUS

Posted By: Michael Kearney (email)
Date: 2/23/2003 at 14:06:53

Socially prominent will be the wedding Tuesday morning, December 2, when Miss Mary DeCock, daughter of Mayor and Mrs. D.A. DeCock will become the bride of Francis J. Kearney, son of Mr. and Mrs. M.J. Kearney, all of DeWitt. The ceremony will take place at St. Joseph's Catholic chapel at 8 o'clock with the Rev. Jame Curtin and the Rev. Patrick Dignan officiating. The single ring ceremony will be used. Attending the couple will be Miss Elizabeth DeCock, sister of the bride and Vincent Kearney, brother of the bridegroom, Margaret Crowley will be the flower girl and the ushers will be William Troy and Joe McCormick of Cedar Rapids. Catherine Bowes of Davenport will play Lohengrin's Wedding March for the procession and Miss Josephine DeScheppar of Long Grove, cousin of the bride will sing musical selections. At high non a wedding dinner will be served at Spring Brook Golf and Country Club House when decoration and colny suggestion will daintilly harmonize pink and blue, the bride's preference. Six cousins of the bride and the bridegroom, Phyllis DeCock, Helen McManus, Margaret and Marcella Kearney, all of Davenport and Mary Genevieve DeCock of Long Grove and Marcella DeCock of Bellevue will attend the tables. The bridal couple will leave on a wedding trip, the destination ot to be disclosed, and after their return will be at home in an apartment in the Iowa Investment Co. building, DeWitt. Both the bride and bridegroom were born and reared in DeWitt and were graduated from St. Joseph's school. Miss DeCock attended Clarke's college, Dubuque and later the University of Iowa where she became a member of the Theta Phi Alpha sorority. Returning to DeWitt she was employed in the First National Bank and later at the DeWitt Bank and Trust Co., where she continued to work until resigning a few weeks ago. Numerous courtesies and complementary parties are honoring this popular bride-elect. Mr. Kearney attended St. Ambrose college, Davenport and St. Mary's at Kansas. For several years he was in charge at Kearney's garage of this city and a few months ago was appointed state parole agent in which position he is engaged at the present time.