Earl John Clark – Bernardine Forbes wedding

BALES, BANE, BOLT, BUDD, CLARK, FORBES, HOCKER

Posted By: Volunteer Paul French
Date: 5/13/2007 at 17:00:14

CLARK – FORBES

Mrs. Ella Forbes Bales of Covina, Calif., formerly of Van Buren county sends the following account of the wedding of her daughter, Bernardine, clipped from the Covina Citizen:

A double ring ceremony at 8 o’clock on Tuesday evening united in marriage Miss Bernardine Forbes, daughter of Mrs. Ella Bales, and Earl John Clark, chief boatswain’s mate of the U. S. Navy, at the home of the bride’s sister, Mrs. Dorothy E. Bolt, of West Center street.

Performed by Rev. H. H. Hocker, the ceremony was preceded by an accordion solo by Miss Barbara Budd. Miss Ruth Bane played the wedding marches.

Given in marriage by Mont Forbes of Downey, the bride was costumed in a blue crepe with brown accessories and wore an orchid corsage.

A graduate of Covina high school Mrs. Clark attended U. C. L. A. and is now head nurse in the orthopedic department of the Los Angeles county hospital.

The groom has been stationed in Panama for the last three and a half years and will return to his station in two weeks.

The groom’s mother, Mrs. H. M. Clark of Kewanee, Mo., was among the wedding guests.

Source: undated newspaper clipping contained in “Family History” of the Barker, Sherod, and Forbes families and descendants compiled by Bernadine Forbes Clark, December 1980.