Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 17, Number 39, DeMotte, Jasper County, 22 August 1947 — GENEVIEVE BANNINGA WED TO NORMAN THOMAS ABBRING [ARTICLE]

GENEVIEVE BANNINGA WED TO NORMAN THOMAS ABBRING

Muskegon (Mich.) Herald In a candlelight ceremony, Friday evening, Miss Genevieve Pearl Banninga, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ira Banninga, 1212 Fourth St., and Norman Thomas Abbring, son of Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Abbring, DeMorte, Ind., exchanged their marriage vows in the First Reformed Church. Before the altar graced with tall baskets of white gladioli and lighted tapers, the Rev. Kenneth Hesselink of Raritan, 111., brother-in-law of the bride, performed the double ring ceremony at 8 p.m. Peter W. Frans, the church organist, played the traditional wedding music and also accompanied, John DeHorn, the soloist. Escorted to the altar by’ her father, the bride was wearing an eggshell taffeta gown, featuring a marquisette yoke inserted by lace which also edged the high round neckline and the long pointed sleeves. The bouffant skirt, extending into a train, fell from a fitted basque bodice. Her jewelry was a strand of pearls, gift of the bridegroom. A headband held her fingertip veil in place and she carried a fan arrangement of red roses.

Mrs. Kenneth Hesselink, attended her sister as matron of honor, wearing a pink taffeta gown and a headdress to match her fanshaped bouquet of pale pink asters. Miss Susan Maring, wearing lavender taffeta, and Miss Shirley Westenfelder, in yellow taffeta, were the bridesmaids. They also wore flowered headdresses and carried fan-shaped bouquets to match their gowns. Lornell Hamstra of DeMotte cousin of the bridegroom, served as the flower girl and Paul Hesselink, nephew of the bride was the ringbearer. Mr. Abbring asked Calvin Swart of DeMotte, Ind., to be his best man, and Donald Peterson, also of DeMotte, and Jack Stevens of Angola, Ind., brother-in-law of the bride, to seat the guests. The church chapel was the scene of the reception, for which 150 guests were received. A yellow and white color scheme was carried out in the flowers and decorations for the table which centered a four-tiered wedding cake. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Stevens were master and mistress of ceremonies and assisting with the serving were friends of the bride, Miss Mariette Wheaton, Miss Marian DeYoung, Miss Ardis Duiser, and the Misses Juclith Smallagam, Betty Deßyke and Genevieve Duisdr, roommates of the bride at Hope College. Mrs. Banninga attended her daughter’s wedding and received the guests at the reception wearing a black crepe dress with a pale pink trim, white accessories and a corsage of pale pink roses. Mrs. Abbring, the bridegroom’s mother chose a maroon dress with white accessories and her flowers were pale pink roses. For traveling on their trip to the Wisconsin Dells and Chicago the bride chose a gray outfit with red accessories and her flowers were red roses. Mr. and Mrs. Abbring will make their home in DeMotte, Ind., until the middle of September, when Mrjl Abbring will enter the Tri-State college, Angola, Ind. The bride, a graduate of the Muskegon Senior High School attended Hope College and has been employed by the Consumers Power Company. Mr. Abbring was graduated from the DeMotte High School, attended Hope College and was station in Japan for a year and a half with Army paratroops. He was discharged recently. Out-of-town guests came from Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, Hudsonville, Marne, Conklin, Roseville, East Williamson, N. J.; Baldwin and Ringle, Wis.; DeMotte. Hammand, Angola and Fair Oaks, Ind.; Momence, Raritan and Chicago* 111., and Redlands. Calif.