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New York State Department of Health; Albany, NY, USA; New York State Marriage Index

Marjorie A.
Hickey Weds
W. P. Leonard

St. Mary's Church was the scene of a mid-spring wedding on Saturday morning, May 3. when Miss Marjorie A. Hickey, daughter af Mr. and Mrs. William H. Hickey, 77 Hamilton Avenue, became the bride of William P. Leonard, son of Mrs. Catherine Leonard, 56 Letchworth Street.

The wedding ceremony was performed by Rev. William E. Cowen, D.D., and Rev. John P. Norris was celebrant of the nuptial Mass. The altar was prettily decorated with white roses and yellow daffodils.

The bride, escorted to the altar and given in marriage by her father, was attired in a white marquisette gown fashioned with a lace bodice and sweetheart neckline, ending in a long circular train. Her finger-tip length veil wae fashioned with a jullet cap. The bride carried a bouquet of white roses and sweetpeas. Miss Miriam Hickey, cousin of the bride, was maid of honor. She wore a gown of pale blue with matching mitts ang carried a bouquet of deep rose snapdragons and sweetpeas with matching tiara.

Miss Madeline Englert, cousin of the bride, and Miss Kathleen Kelly were bridesmaids, Miss Englert gowned in yellow marquisette with matching mitts, carried a bouquet of bronze snapdragons and yellow sweetpeas and wore a matching tiara. Miss Kelly, gowned in aqua marquisette with matching mitts, carried a bouquet of pink snapdragons and sweetpeas and wore a matching tiara.

John W. Gagan was best man. Charles H. Hockey and Robert Reilly, brothers-in-law of the bridegroom, were ushers at the church. For her daughter's wedding Mrs. Hickey chose a black gabardine suit with white accessories and wore a corsage of pink roses and sweetpeas. The bridegroom's mother wore a pink crepe dress with white accessories and a corsage of pink roses and sweetpeas. A wedding breakfast for the immedaite families was served at Springside Inn, and was followed by a reception for 100 guests.

The bride presented her maid-of-honor with a gold cigarette case and matching compact and to her bridesmsida she gave gold compacts. The bridegroom's gift to his best man was a leather bill fold, and to the ushers, he gave gold tie clasps.

The bride is a graduate of East High School and the bridegroom is a graduate of Holy Family High School. Both are employed by the Internaional Harvester Company in this city.

After a wedding trip the couple will reside at 55 Letchworth Street.

Mrs. Leonard was entertained at pre-nuptial showers given by the Misses Madeline Englert, Miriam Hickey, Kathleen Kelly, Betty Bennan, Dolores Robinson, and Mrs. Catherine Leonard.

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