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    Person ID I31982  Strong Family Tree
    Last Modified 17 Aug 2014 

    Father Harold "Hal" Duane Willard,   b. 21 Nov 1931, Caseville, Huron County, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 21 Oct 1968, Port Huron, St. Clair County, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 36 years) 
    Mother Florence Joyce Fry,   b. 29 Feb 1932, San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo County, California Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 24 May 2014, Marysville, St. Clair County, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 82 years) 
    Marriage 27 Jun 1953  Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3
    • The STRIFFLER-BENKELMAN BROADCAST, Volume 16, dated September 7, 1953, reported that Joyce Fry and Harold Willard were married in June, with their home to be Highland Park.

      Cass City Chronicle
      Thursday, July 2, 1958
      Page Four
      Willard-Fry Rites Told In Cass City

      Miss Jessie Fry preceded her sister down the aisle Saturday night at Mrs. R. Joyce Fry became the bride of Harold D. Willard, all of Cass City, in a candlelight service in the Evangelical United Brethren Church.

      Wearing a cocktail length gown with a lace bodice over satin falling into the orion overskirt resting on Satin, Miss Fry spoke her vows in front of the Rev. S. R. Wurtz.

      Her maid of honor wore a cocktail length gown of blue tissue silk and a crown of blue carnations. Her bouquet was also of blue carnations.

      Gerald Prieskorn was the best man.

      Miss Fry is the daughter of Mrs. Wilma S. Fry of Cass City and the grom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. William J. Willard of Cass City.

      A reception immediately followed the ceremony in the church basement.

      The bridal couple both graduated from Cass City High School. The groom completed his studies in 1949 and the bride in 1950. Miss Fry graduated from the Gale Institute in Minneapollis. The groom served two years in the Air Force.

      The couple will reside in Detroit, where the groom will continue his studies at Wayne State University and the bride will continue working in the department of communications of the General Motors Corporation.

      Guests attending the wedding were from the Cass City area, Detroit, Grayling and Manistee.
    Family ID F9834  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

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    1. [S595] Striffler-Benkelman Broadcast, (Family Publication, published sporadically to record family milestones in connection with the annual Striffler-Benkelman Family Reunions, with Vol. 1, Number 1, published Sept. 7, 1936. Issues on file at the Rawson Memorial Library in Cass City, Michigan include Vol. 5 (1941), Vol. 7 (1944) and Volumes 8 (1945) through Vol. 28 (1968). Issues published from 1961 through 1964 were not assigned volume numbers, and 1963 appears to be missing. Xeroxes of the existing issues were also made by Melinda McLemore Strong in 2007. According to a article published by the Cass City Chronicle on August 6, 1981, commemorating the Fiftieth and Final Striffler-Benkelman Reunion, the final issue of the STRIFFLER-BENKELMAN BROADCAST appears to have been Volume 28, published in 1968.), Volume 16, September 7, 1953. (Reliability: 3).

    2. [S653] Cass City Chronicle, P.O. Box 115, Cass City, Michigan 48726, Published continously since 1899, archived from 1899 through 2005 at http://newspapers.rawson.lib.mi.us/chronicle/, Thursday, October 24, 1968 (Reliability: 3).

    3. [S653] Cass City Chronicle, P.O. Box 115, Cass City, Michigan 48726, Published continously since 1899, archived from 1899 through 2005 at http://newspapers.rawson.lib.mi.us/chronicle/, Thursday, July 2, 1958, Willard-Fry Rites Told In Cass City (Reliability: 3).