The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-11-22
Weddings

dent R00SeVeltS summer retreat
near Thurmont met charming
hostess at the Hagerstown U.SO.,
will be eliminated at the altar of
Trinity Lutheran Church at three
thirty o'clock Thanksgiving after
noon, when Miss Madeline Diffen-
dial, daughter of Mrs Bertha Diffen-
dali, Sunset Avenue, becomes the
bride of Mr.. Robert William Bosi-
siere, son of Mrs. George Boissiere,
Peekskill, NJ Y.
The double ring ceremony will be
read by DR.. Wilson P. Ard before
an altar banked with white pom-pom
chrysanthemums and lighted by ca
thedral tapers in fourteen branch
wrought-iron candelabra.
The bride will wear white street.
length wool sheer with white ac-
cessories and a shoulder bouquet of
white orchids. Her red shoes will
match the red altar decorations GUS
tomary for Thanksgiving services.
She will be attended by Miss
Iona Alexander, who will wear a
street length dress of bronze-green
sheer wool, with a shoulder corsage
of Talisman roses and red pom-pom
chrysanthemums and a skull cap in
the bronze-green shade, with feather
flowers. Both costumes were de-
signed and executed by the brides
mother.
Slate blue crepe, set off by cor
sage of pink camellias, will be worn
by Mrs. Diffendal, while Mrs. Bois-
siere has selected navy blue, with
a pink rose corsage at her shoulder.
Mr.. John Fisher, of Washington,
D. c., will serve as best man.
An informal reception at the Diff
fendall home will follow the cere-
mony after which the couple will
leave for a short wedding trip. They
will make their home in New York
City, where Mr.. Boissiere will re-
turn to his former position with the
firm of Dominick and Dominick,
Wall Street.
Miss Diffendall is we'll known
here, where she has been a member
of the teaching staff Of Antietam
Street School for the past several
years and has been prominently
identified in U.S.O. work during the
war.
Mr.. Boissiere, who was sergeant
in the Office of Strategic Services,
was stationed at the Presidents
home for nine months and received
his training there. He has recently
returned from twenty-eight months
overseas.
Out of town guests at the wedding
will include: Mr.. and Mrs V. G.
McGraw, Front Royal, Va; Mr.. and
Mrs. Donald Hudson, Jessups, Md;
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Ackler,' Mr..
and Mrs. Robert Maddox and Mrs.
Meredith Mackley, all of Frederick;
Mr.. George Toberman, Washington,
D. c.; Mrs. Beatrice Nutter, Mr.. and
Mrs. Donald Willard, Mr. Robert
Virgins and Mr.. and Mrs. Carlton
Zahn of Baltimore.
The wedding of Miss Madeline M.
Herbert, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
George C. Herbert, South Prospect
Street, to Capt. Lon Peyton of Chi
cago, will be solemnized at five
thirty o'clock this evening WED
nesday) in Trinity Lutheran Church.
The double ring ceremony will be
read by Dr. Wilson P Ard and the
bride, who will be given in marriage
by her father, will be attended by
her sister, Mrs. Frederick Burhans,
of Aver, Mass, as matron of honor
and will have as bridesmaids her
younger sister, Miss Claretta Herbert
and Mrs. Lloyd Kuhn.
Mr.. Norman Holtzaple will act
as Capt. Peyton's best man end the
ushers will be Capt Frederick Bur-
hans, Capt G. o. Backman of Wash
ington, D. c., Mr.. Lloyd Kuhn and
Robert Harper.
The wedding will be followed by
a reception at the Hotel Hamilton,
after which the couple will leave
for a wedding trip.
Captain Peyton, who has served
in the Office of Strategic Services,
is on terminal leave from the Army.
Parties and showers given for Miss
Herbert, during the past few days,
included miscellaneous shower and
bridge by Mrs. Robert Harper and
Mrs. Joseph Walker; dinner party
and shower given by Mrs. Norman
Holtzaple and Mrs. Ernest Nichols,
and a bridge-shower at which Mrs.
Lloyd Kuhn was hostess
Miss Marparet Mullen daughter