Here is this week's edition of "Seavers in the News" - a weekly feature from the historical newspapers about persons with the surname Seaver that are interesting, useful, mysterious, fun, macabre, or add information to my family tree database.
This week's entry is from the Leominster [Mass.] Daily Enterprise newspaper dated Saturday, 10 August 1940, page 3, column 4:
The transcription of the article is:
"MISS ROUKES WEDS TODAY
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Will Become Bridge of Edward R. Seaver This Afternoon
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AT UNITARIAN
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Church Ceremony Will Be Conducted Here at 4 o'Clock
"Miss Janet Arlene Roukes, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George H. Roukes of Academy road will become the bride of Edward Richmond Seaver son of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick W. Seaver Sr. of 90 Main street, in a 4 o'clock ceremony this afternoon at the Unitarian Church. Rev. Earle R. Steeves will officiate.
"Mrs. Harold Wilkinson will be at the organ. Miss Geraldine Seaver, a sister of the bridegroom, will be soloist. She will sing "I Love You Truly" and "Because."
"The bride will be attended by Miss Ethel Birtwhistle of New Bedford. Miss Judith Fischer, a niece of the bridegroom, will be flower girl. The best man will be Frederick W. Seaver, Jr., a brother of the groom. Ushers will be Winthrop Roukes ofdMelrose, Richard Clarke of East Orange, N.J., and Allen Freeman of Taunton.
"The bride will be gowned in a combination tiered lace and net gown with a heart-shaped neckline edged with net ruching, puffed Venetian lace sleeves and bodice cut entraib. The long veil is of illusion tulle with a coronet of lilies of the valley. She will carry a shower bouquet of bouvardia and Belmont gardenias.
"Miss Birtwhistle will wear a gown of Margaret rose net over taffeta with a heart-shaped neckline, full sleeves and gathered bodice, caught with small blue velvet bows down the front. She will carry a colonial nosegay of peach and blue shades to match the gown.
"The flower girl will wear a periwinkle blue princess style dress and carry a miniature nosegay.
"Decorations at the reception following at the Twin Oaks Lodge will be palms and gladioli. On their return trip from a wedding trip to Maine, the couple will make their home in Lowell.
"The bride is a graduate of Leominster High School and Skidmore College and was formerly assistant to the director of admissions at Dartmouth College. The bridegroom is a graduate of Leominster High School, Worcester Academy and Columbia University. He is associated with the New England Telephone and Telegraph Co. at Boston."
The source citation is:
"Miss Roukes Weds Today," Leominster [Mass.] Daily Enterprise newspaper, Saturday, 10 August 1940, page 3, column 4, Janet Arlene Rouked and Edward Richmond Seaver marriage annoumcement; imaged, OldNews.com (https://www.oldnews.com : accessed 4 July 2025).
This announcement provides the names, residences, occupations and wedding date and place, parents and attendants names and honeymoon plans of the parties..
Edward Richmond Seaver (1913-2004) was born 28 August 1913 in Leominster, Massachusetts, the sixth child of Frederick Walton and Alma Bessie (Richmond) Seaver. He married Janet Arlene Roukes on 10 Augudst 1940 in Leominster, Massachusetts.
Edward Richmond Seaver (1913-2004) is my uncle, the brother of my father, Frederick Walton Seaver, Jr. (1911-1983).
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