Honnold, Guy & Florence Koolbeek (Marr 1908)

HONNOLD, KOOLBEEK

Posted By: Linda Ziemann, volunteer (email)
Date: 8/11/2015 at 08:45:55

Alton Democrat
June 13, 1908

WEDDING BELLS.
At the home of the bride’s mother in Hospers, Iowa, on Wednesday, June tenth 1908 occurred the marriage of Prof. J. Guy Honnold and Miss Florence Isabelle Koolbeek. Rev. Riepma performed the ceremony in the presence of a small company of relatives at the hour of high noon—the Koolbeek home being artistically decorated with pink and white carnations. The bride was gowned in white silk with trimming of cluny lace and carried cream roses. A bounteous wedding feast followed the ceremony at which they assembled guests were daintily served by Misses Frink, Noll, Sheel, Florence and Rosalie Hilbelink. The bride was the recipient of many beautiful presents in silver and china and cut glass as well as table linens and furniture, etc. The groom is a son of Mr. and Mrs. John Honnold, formerly of LeMars but now of Crawford, Nebraska, where they are operating a ranch. The groom himself is a young man of education and ambition and has been teaching school for several years. He was formerly engaged at Hospers but has spent the past year in the schools of Hendricks, Minnesota. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Koolbeek—of whom the mother alone survives—Mr. Koolbeek having died a few months ago. The bride herself is a young woman of many excellent traits and much popularity with the young people of this community. Following the wedding reception, the bride and groom left on the three o’clock train south for Sioux City whence after a brief sojourn they will go to Minneapolis and the to Pierre, South Dakota, at which places they will visit friends. They will go from Pierre to Crawford, Nebraska, to spend the summer with the groom’s folks. After September first, they will be at home in Hendricks, Minnesota. They were escorted to the train by a large company of young friends and their last moments in Hospers were made as miserable as possible with rice and old shoes and other emblems of the matrimonial state. The bride threw her bouquet from the train as it pulled out of town and the lucky young lady to capture same was Miss Carrie Sheel who—by all the laws of superstition—should now be the next girl of the company to change her name. Among guests from a distance were Mrs. Sutherland and family from Paullina, Mrs. Kleinheksel and family from Archer, Mrs. Vincent and baby from Blue Earth, Minnesota, Mrs. Honnold and son from Crawford, Nebraska, Mrs. Springer from Sioux City and Mrs. Bowers from Pierre, South Dakota.