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Archive June 2024

As I write this Trinity Sunday is upon us and Senior Fellowship has wrapped up the season with it famous “Red, White & Blue” Luncheon. Charles and Judy Iager were in attendance and shared a special news-clipping with the Archive and since it is a milestone in their lives, I thought I would share it with you.

As you may have noticed on Sunday, May 19th the flowers on the altar were in celebration of Judy’s birthday. Turns out that it is also a milestone of 80 years.  Sunday, July 7th the altar flowers will celebrate Charles and Judy Iager’s 60th anniversary July 5, 1964. The were married here at St. Paul’s by Rev. Alvin F. Burns.

Quoting THE NEWS LEADER, Laurel, Maryland, July 30, 1964.

Charles and Judy Wedding Day July 1964
Charles and Judy Iager July 5, 1964

Miss Judith Elizabeth Greene, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Henry Edward Greene of Haviland Mill Road, Howard County, and Mr. Charles Ellsworth Iager, Jr., son of Mrs. C. Ellsworth Iager of Maple Lawn Farms, Fulton, were united in marriage on Sunday, July 5, 1964. The ceremony was held at 3 p.m. in St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, Fulton, with Pastor Alvin F. Burns officiating.

Given in marriage by her father, the bride wore an ivory stain empire gown with a train of Chantilly lace. Here illusion fingertip veil was trimmed in a leucon lace matching the border of here train. The headpiece of tiny ivory satin rosebuds was studded with seed pearls. The bridal bouquet was a crescent-shaped cascade of dendrobium white orchids with a center corsage of white cymbidium orchids. 

Bride-maids were Mrs. Leonard Boswell, College Park; Miss Barbara Jackson, Windsor Farm, Glenelg; and Miss Carolyn Thompson, Clarksville. All the attendants wore identical sheath gowns of aqua mist nylon chiffon with three-tiered overskirts and matching headbands. The carried sprays of birds-of-paradise flowers.

The bridesmaid were classmates from University of Maryland where the bridal couple are students. The bridegroom is a senior in the College of Agriculture, majoring in Dairy production, and the bride is a junior in the College of Education, majoring in the secretarial course. Martha Susan Iager, sister of the bridegroom, was flower girl, dressed in a pale-yellow nylon full-length gown with a bouffant skirt and carry a basket of birds-of-paradise flowers with a matching headband, Four-year-old Billy Egloff, cousin of the bride, was ringbearer for this double-ring ceremony. He wore a summer tuxedo to match the ushers.

Best man for his brother was   Eugene William Iager, also of   Fulton, and ushering were Messrs. Gregory Greene, brother of bride, of Howard County; Carl Mauck of Fulton; Frank Downey of Williamsport; Douglas Stauffer, cousin of the groom, of Frederick; and David Sealing of Fulton. All wore red plaid ties and cummerbunds and white summer tuxedos. Soloists were Miss Joyce White of Silver Spring, and Mr. Marlin Hoff off of New Windsor. A reception followed in the Parish Hall preceded by a receiving line on the lawn before the gray stone church.

The newly-weds departed on a wedding rip in the Pocono Mountains, Pa. They will reside in Arrowhead Estate, Howard County. For the event, the bride’s mother chose a light sandalwood chiffon and lace gown complemented by matching accessors with a yellow cymbidium orchid corsage. Mrs. Iager, the groom’s mother, wore a beige lace dress with beige accessories and cream cymbidium orchid headband. 

  

Respectfully submitted,

Kerry Griffin

Archivist

 

 

 

 

 

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