Kessel-Smith Wedding 1927

KESSEL, SMITH

Posted By: Cathy Joynt Labath (email)
Date: 6/29/2005 at 19:10:49

Davenport Democrat and Leader
Davenport, Scott, Iowa
Wednesday Evening, April 27, 1927

KESSEL-SMITH NUPTIALS OBSERVED IN FAIRFIELD;
POPULAR YOUNG PEOPLE
Special to the Democrat

Fairfield, Ia., April 27 - Miss Retha Smith and Ralph Kessel, two well known young people of Fairfield were married Tuesday morning in St. Mary's Catholic church. Father E.F. Gaule celebrated the high mass and the wedding ceremony at which the single ring services was used. The bride wore a grain-colored flat crepe with hat and slippers to match. She had a corsage bouquet of Kilarney roses and sweet peas. Miss Leona Nady, bridesmaid, was gowned in green crepe. Robert Kessel attended his brother.

The bride is the only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Smith of Lockridge. She was graduated from the Mt. Pleasant high school in 1924 and has been a bookkeeper for the Fairfield Daily Ledger since.

Mr. Kessel is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Kessel and after attending Fairfield schools studied at the Bell Electric School in Chicago. For the last two years he has been employed by the Electric Manufacturing company of this city. After a short wedding trip the young people will be at home with the groom's parents until the first of the year when they will occupy a farm north of this city.

Descendants of Joseph Andrew Kessel
 

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