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- at Congregational Church by Reverend Gerald E. Boyce
Marriage - June 19, 1948- Miss Claire Olive Gallop, of 2 Shady Hill Square, Cambridge, Mass., daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H.B. Gallop of Cambridge and Shanghai, China, was married to Walter George Overton Jr., son of Mrs. Walter G. Overton, Sr. of 171 Jayne Avenue, Patchogue, in a pretty wedding ceremony in the Congregational Church, Saturday at 12 noon. The Rev. Gerald E. Boyce officiated. The bride was given in marriage by her uncle, Frank Gallop, of 50 Park Avenue, New York, in the absence of her father. She wore a gown of white marquisette and a fingertip veil held in place by a headpiece of seed pearls. She carried a colonial bouquet of white sweetpeas and Canterbury bells. Miss Jean Gallop of Jackson Heights, was her sister's maid of honor. She was dressed in a pale green dotted swiss gown. She wore yellow daisies in her hair and carried yellow and white daisies. Franklyn H. Overton of Patchogue, brother of the bridegroom, was best man. The ushers were Hebert Gallop Jr., of Lempster, N.H., and Frank Scutari Jr. of Patchogue. The church was attractively decorated with bouquets of white gladioli and white carnations. Miss Edna Jackson, organist, played the wedding marches. A reception was held at Shaber's Rest, Patchogue. Mr. and Mrs. Overton left for a 10-day trip through the Adirondacks and the White Mountains, the bride wearing an aqua Palm Beach suit and a corsage of yellow carnations. The bride is a graduate of Adelphi College, Garden City, class of '48. The bridegroom is serving with the Air Force, now at Camp Kilmer, N.J.
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