Evening star., 1944-01-25
MISS Helen Jones
Becomes Bride of
1t. Clifford Esler, N.

While service weddings predomi-
nate among those taking place dur
ing the present war period, not all
service weddings are those in which
the bride, herself, as well as the
bridegroom, either is in the service
or is a service daughter. Yester-
days wedding, which was held at
$50 O'Clock in the Memorial Chapel
at the Army Medical Center, was
one of the latter, as the bride, the
former Miss Helen Winifred Jones,
is the daughter of Col. and Mrs.
Harold Wellington Jones, long prom
inent in Army circles.
Chaplain Neil p. McManus, S. j.,
officiated at the double-ring cere-
mony, after Col. Jones escorted his
daughter to the altar, where she
was met by the bridegroom, 1t. Clif-
ford Myers Esler, jr., U. S. N.
For her wedding costume the
bride chose a gown of ivory faille
appliqued in satin. Her full-length
veil of ivory illusion fell from a halo
of orange blossoms and she car
ried white satin prayer book COW
cred with white orchid.
Miss Dorothy Watkins of Zanes-
vile, Ohio, was the maid of honor
and only attendant. She wore an
aqua taffeta gown, made with a
dropped neckline edged. with lace,
short puffed sleeves and a full gath
cred skirt. Her Juliet cap was OF
seed pearls and her bouquet of pale
yellow roses.
1t. q. g. A. B. knight served as
best man and the ushers were 1t.
q. g. John w. Warren and Ensign
George Pendergast.
At the reception which followed at
the Off1cers' Club, the bridal couple
were assisted in receiving by Col.
and Mrs. Jones, parents of the
bride, Mrs. Jones wearing an aqua
crepe gown, the bodice embroidered
in silver threads, a small black hat
trimmed with velvet bows, and a
purple orchid corsage.
The young ladies who assisted
the bridal couple at the reception
were the Misses Ann and Jane
Kirk. daughters of the surgeon gen.
eral of the Army and Mrs. Norman
T. Kirk; Mrs. David Mcconnell, the
former Miss Frances Scott Sim
mons, daughter of Brig. Gen. and.
Mrs. James Stevens Simmons; Miss
Martha Jane Bliss, daughter of Brig.
Gen. and Mrs. Raymond Bliss; Miss
Mary Louise Hillman, daughter of
Brig, Gen. and Mrs. Clark c. Hill
man: Miss Beverly Dillon; daughter
of Brig. Gen. and Mrs. Joseph A.
Dillon: Miss Katherine Calender,
daughter of Col and Mrs. George
R. Calender; Miss Harriet La
Roche, daughter of Col and Mrs.
Laurent S. La Roche: Mrs. John
Edmunds, and Miss Henrietta E.
Bovine.
1t. Esler and his bride left later
for Texas, the latter travelling in
an aqua suit with brown trimming
a beige coat trimmed in nutria, and
a brown hat with an aqua bow. On
her shoulder was white orchid.
On their way to Texas, where they
will visit 1t. Esler's parents in Deni-
son, they will stop for a few hours
in st. Louis, where they will be the
guests of honor at luncheon to
be given by DR.. and Mrs. j. S. ".
Krebs, lifelong friends of the brides
parents. While in Denison, 1t. and
Mrs. Esler will be feted at a recep-
ton given by the hridegroom's par
ents, and en- route to Portsmouth.
N. H., where 1t. Esler will be on
duty at the submarine base, they
will stop in Brookline, Mass, to visit
the brides uncle and aunt, Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles A. Newhall, who will
entertain them at small recep-
ton.
Yesterdays bride was graduated
from Duke University and is a men,
Der of Delta Delta Delta and Theta
Alpha Phi. She formerly worked
as a radio announcer in Salisbury,
N. c.. and recently has been en-
ployed at WMAL, over which station
she is known to the listening public
as Winn Jones. 1t. Esler was
graduated from the United States
Naval Academy at Annapolis with
the class of 1912, receiving his COM
mission in December, 194l.