Iowa Old Press
Sioux City Journal, Sunday, Feb. 12, 1939
BEAULIEU — PHAR
At a nuptial mass at 9 o’clock Saturday morning in the Blessed Sacrament church, Miss Josephine Beaulieu of Sioux City, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Beaulieu of Merrill, and Eugene Phar, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Phar of San Diego, will be married. Rev. Henry Meyer will officiate. Mrs. Frank Huntsman will be organist.
Miss Betty Lou Mangold and Jack Mangold will be the attendants. Miss Mangold will wear an azure satin dress and short white fur jacket. Her headdress will be a veil of blue tulle and satin bow. She will carry sweet peas and valley lilies in a nosegay.
The bride will wear a white moire taffeta wedding gown, en train and with leg o’ mutton sleeves. Her fingertip length veil will fall from a coronet of orange blossoms. She will carry a white prayer book, a gift of the bridegroom. Mr. Beaulieu will give his daughter in marriage.
A wedding breakfast in Scribbins’ teashop will follow the church service. There will be covers for 10 guests. After a trip to Lincoln and Omaha, Mr. Phar and His bride will live at 1017 Jones street.
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Sioux City Journal, Sunday, Feb. 19, 1939
The marriage of Miss Josephine Beaulieu of Sioux City, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Beaulieu of Merrill, and Eugene Phar, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Phar of San Diego, was solemnized at a nuptial mass Saturday morning in Blessed Sacrament church by Rev. Henry Meyer. Mrs. Frank Huntsman was organist.
Miss Betty Lou Mangold and Jack Mangold were the attendants. A wedding breakfast at Scribbins’ teashop followed the ceremony. Mr. and Mrs. Phar will reside at 1017 Jones street, after a brief trip.
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Sioux City Journal
Sioux City, Woodbury co., Iowa
Wednesday, February 22, 1939
EDWARD KAVANAUGH
Edward Kavanaugh, 59, a truck gardener in Fairacres
addition, Leeds, died Tuesday in a hospital after an extended
sickness of a heart ailment. Mr. Kavanaugh was born September 4,
1879, in Plymouth county.
Surviving are the widow, Nellie, and two sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth
Beaulieu of near Hinton and Mrs. John Finnegan of Fairmont, Minn.
The body is at the O’Toole-Gunne funeral home pending
completion of arrangements.
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Sioux City Journal
Sioux City, Woodbury co. Iowa
Thursday, February 23, 1939
EDWARD KAVANAUGH
Funeral services for Edward Kavanaugh, 59, a truck
gardener in Fairacres addition, Leeds, who died Tuesday in a
hospital, will be held at 1 o’clock this afternoon in the
O’Toole-Gunn chapel. Rev. J. E. Feller, pastor of Wesley
Methodist church, will officiate. Burial will be in Memorial Park
cemetery.
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Sioux City Journal
Sioux City, Woodbury co., Iowa
Saturday, February 25, 1939
EIGHT WIVES ASK FREEDOM - File Divorce
Petitions as Docket for March Term Closes
Eight divorce actions were filed Friday as the docket for the
March term of district court was closed. Wives were the
complainants in all eight cases.
Myrtle Lemke asked that a writ of attachment be placed against
the property of her husband, Herman Lemke, whom she charged with
cruelty, and that she be awarded $40 a month. She said she and
Lemke, who is a salesman, were married at Elk Point on August 7,
1937.
Custody of an adopted child and $70 a month were asked by Helen
Hollingsworth in a petition she filed against Chester
Hollingsworth. In her petition, in which she accused her husband
of cruelty, Mrs. Hollingsworth said they married here more than
14 years ago.
Accusing Virgil Stoddard of being intensely jealous and causing
her to lose sleep, Thelma Stoddard brought action to gain her
freedom on cruelty grounds. They wed last July 9.
Catherine Lenz charged Herman Lenz with cruelty. She said they
had been married less than five months.
Separate maintenance was sought by Maxine Alice Diehl from
William Joseph Diehl on the ground of cruelty. She asked alimony
and said they married five years ago.
Cruelty was the charge on which Rhea G. Snyder based a divorce
action against George M. Snyder. They wed in Sioux City August 1,
1936.
Goldie B. Smith, in a petition in which she charged Jack Smith
with cruelty, said the two had lived together less than five
weeks. They were married in Sioux City February 7, 1934. Mrs.
Smith said her husband has been convicted of a felony in
Minnesota and had served time in the state penitentiary there.
She asked custody of a minor son.
Custody of two children was sought by Anna Vlach in an action
brought against Henry J. Vlach on a ground of cruelty. Their
marriage took place 23 years ago.
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