NOTES:
Name of father Wolff Lenoria Allen
Name of mother Maude Harris
1930 OR CENSUS - Edwin Allen, age 4, b. Oregon, is enumerated with Wolff L., age 34, married at age 29, occupation welder, b. North Carolina, and Maud, age 27, married at age 22, b. North Carolina.
MARRIAGE - to Mariann Croisan, 1953
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Bridal Pair Unattended
A simple ceremony at 12:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 1, in the chapel of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Salem, married Miss Mariann Croisan and Edwin Earl Allen. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George William Croisan of Salem, and Mr. and Mrs. Wolff Lenoria Allen of Cottage Grove are parents of the bridegroom. The Rev. George Swift, recto, officiated. Only members of the immediate family were present.
Old-fashioned nosegays of pink flowers, tied with pink ribbons, were on alternate pews of the church, and the altar was decorated with bouquets of double pink petunias and double pink stock.
Before the ceremony, Ronal Craven sang, and wedding music was played by Miss Ruth Bedord, organist.
Mr. Croisan gave his daughter in marriage. The couple was unattended.
The bride’s dress was of imported pink-beige taffeta, in afternoon length. It was made with fitted bodice, puff sleeves and full skirt. She wore a chapel length veil of pink beige nylon net, attached to a cap of Chantilly lace bordered in seed pearls. She carried a nosegay of pink roses and pink stephanotis.
Ushers were George W. Croisan Jr., brother of the bride, and a cousin, Courtney Kurtz.
Mrs. Croisan wore a dress of light blue linen, with navy blue accessories and a navy blue flowered hat. Mrs. Allen was in a dress of beige linen, with a small beige felt hat and white accessories. Both wore corsages of rubrum lilies.
Immediately following the service, there was a luncheon in the Croisan home. Here the round table was spread with and embossed Victorian cloth which hung to the floor. A tiered wedding cake, topped by cupids and wreathed by smilax and white stephanotis, was the table centerpiece, and small nosegays tied with satin ribbons were scattered about the table.
For traveling to San Francisco and Carmel on their wedding trip, the bride wore a navy blue silk dress with pleated bodice and skirt, trimmed with faille collar and cuffs, and accessories in navy. She carried a full-length cashmere coat in pale blue.
Mr. and Mrs. Allen will be at home soon in Eugene, where he is associated with a law firm".
Eugene Register Guard 9 Aug 1953, pg 32
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