The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-30
Miss Raney And
Mr.. Sapp Marry
At Salisbury
Mrs. John Sheehan, Of This
City, Attends Sister AS
Matron Of Honor

SALISBURY, April 29.-The mar.
riage of Miss Garnelle Raney, daugh.
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Frank
lin Raney, of South Fulton street,
and Odell Sapp, son of the late Mr..
and Mrs. Henry Sapp, of WINSTON
Salem, was solemnlzed with an elab'
crate and very beautiful ceremony
Saturday evening at st. Johns Luth-
eran church by the pastor. DR.. P. D.
Brown.
The church decorations consisted
of white tulips, s~napdragons and
spirea with boughs of dogwood and
greenery for background. Floor
standards in the ckancel and grad
uated ~candelabra on the altar held
tall wax candles. At intervals down
the central aisle the pews we're tied
with bouquets of spirea and tulips.
Harry Livengood was organist and
Miss Elizabeth Jensen, of Winston,
Salem, sang the Lutheran marriage
hymn. o Perfect Love, Ich Liebe
Dich Griegl, and Still as the Night
tBohm).
Lindsay Sapp. Of Winston-salem.
Erickson, of Chaps. Hill, John A.
Sheehan. of Wilmington, Leroy
Sans, Charles Dixon, Robert Par.
nelle, Of Winston. and Homer Gard
ner, Gerney Holshouser and Gregory
Peeler, of Salisbury, were ushers.
The bride was given in marriage
by her father. She wore rustlins
sun shot ivory taffeta made on po-
etically Victorian lines with corseted
waist, sweetheart neckline, long
sleeves puffed above and caught
with orange blossoms and tightened
into pointed cuffs. The skirt billoW-
ed from a gathered waistline and
had a dramatic train over which
fell the lace edged illusion veil which
was held in place with a heart shap-
ed tiara banded with orange bios
SONS. The bride held q white prayer
book with d white orchid on it and
a shower OF white lilacs. She car
ried a handkerchief which her sis,
ter, Mrs. John a. Sheehan, had used
at her " marriage.
Attending the bride we're her old
er sister. Mrs. John A Sheehan, Of
Wilmington, as nlatron Of honor, her
younger sister. Miss Janice Raney
as maid of honor, little Jo Anne
Hall, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Led
ford Hall, as flower girl, and the
following maids: Mrs. Gerney Hols-
houser, Miss Nancy NcNeely, Of Coo
lemee and Winston, Miss Jean Rob
inson, of Lowell, and Miss Pearl
Sapp, Of Winston.
All the brile's attendants wore
moonglow pink marquisette dresses
with ruffled skirts which swept the
floor, square necklines outlined with
ruffles and short puffed sleeves. The
maid and matror of honor carried
double bouquets of purple lilacs, the
maids cascades of the same flowers
and the flower girl a rose petal has
ket made of a wide pink horsehair
hat.
Following the marriage Mr.. and
Mrs. Raney gave a reception at their
home. The bride and bridegroom
left during the evening for west
ern North Carolina, Cincinnati and
the Kentucky Derby. Mrs. SappI
Travelled in a dark blue silk suit
with white eyelet trimmed blouse
and blue sailor hat edged with white
eyelet. On her coat was a white or
child.
Mrs. Sapp is a graduate of Salem
college, class of 1885, where she maj
ored in sociology. Later she studied
at the University of North Caro-
lima where she became a member
of Pi Beta Phi. For two years she
was a member of the staff of the
Forsyth county welfare department.