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marker with Leverne Shoultz Hudson born 9 Jul 1915 died 20 Dec 1999 Beloved Mother.

If you know who the bride the name of the bride's parents e-mail mindenmemories@aol.com and tell us who they were.

The bride is Jo Ann Fontenot daughter of Joe Fontenot and Abbie Wimberly.
The groom is the son of Ralph Wayne and Nova Bailey.

The singer in the wedding picture with Mary Elizabeth

is Eddie Jayne Kleineggar

daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Kleineggar

She had a beautiful voice!

identified by Ellen Baskerville

Photo by Mattingly

12 Wedding Music ( March 1956) for the Lowe - Searles Wedding- Margaret Ann Perritt, sang, organist: Becky Lou Jones.

Wedding was held at the First Methodist Church on Main ST.

11 Matherne-Lowe Wedding Party (1956 First Methodist Church, Minden )

Front row left: Bridesmaid Barbara Bergeron from Houma, LA , (the grooms sister);

Maid of Honor: Jo Ann Richardson;

Bride: Stella Theresa Lowe; Groom: Paul Bernard Matherne of Houma, La, both bride and groom attended Centenary College; Best Man: David Hardy also of Houma, LA

Back row L-R the future Reverend Terrell Lowe (Stella's uncle -only 4 yrs older); second is friend Leonard Colvin; Melvin McConnell (1st cousin from Springhill, LA, & Wynn Stanton / friend from Centenary College.

(Rev. Flowers officiated , ( not pictured).

# 10 Matherne-Lowe Wedding (1956) L-R Father of the Bride: Prentiss Winifred Lowe; mother of the bride and Prentiss's first wife: Laura Theresa McConnell Lowe of Minden, LA ,

Bride :Stella Theresa Lowe and Groom Paul Bernard Matherne, of Houma, LA both attending Centenary, and Grooms mother: Ada Matherne of Houma, LA.

Wedding 9. This is Jane Reeves, MHS class of 1953, and a

good friend of mine. She married Forest Grimes.

She is a widow now. She lives in Sulphur, La. She had an

older sister. They lived down the hill from the school...might

have been Richardson Street.

Identified by Nan Hunter Castle.

UPDATE....

Was browsing thru Grambling's Weddings recently and came across Jane Reeves(53 grad) and noted your comments underneath. Jane and older sister, Joan (maybe a 50 graduate ) are my 2nd cousins. Their Mom was a Ratcliff. I lost contact with both over 20 years ago. I have located Joan in Houston from White Pages.com. and had a long telephone conversation. She married Jimmy Booth, also a Minden graduate.

Sadly, Jane is in Sulphur nursing home with advanced Alzheimers. Prayers are appreciated.

I am not sure but believe her 2nd husband, Forest Grimes, is alive and in Sulphur.

Submitted by: Herman Ratcliff, class of 1953 (Rec'd May 19, 2008)

#8 Wedding: Thomas Daniel Searles and Edna Lowe leaving First Methodist Church

Wedding 7 In this picture of my parent’s wedding are the following people on the back row: Margaret Perrit (Edna’s best friend), Mary Lou Searles (not Hathia, Hathia is in the picture below this one with her sister Cecile), Eugene Searles, Becky Jones, Prentiss Lowe. The next row is Stella Lowe, Edna, Tommy, Gay Hardy, and I don’t know the other two people.

L-R Front Row: Stella Theresa Lowe, sister of the bride;

Bride: Edna Winifred Lowe; Groom: Tom/Tex /Tommy/ Thomas Daniel Searles;

Best Man: Carol Gay Hardy,

Pastor, Rev. Joyner, beloved Minister of First Methodist Church when Edna was a little girl; and mother of the Bride, Laura Theresa McConnell Lowe, first wife of Prentiss Winifred Lowe of Minden, La.

L-R Back row: Margaret Perritt, Mary Lou Searles, mother of the groom Eugene Harve Searles, father of the groom, and Becky Lou Jones, grooms first cousin and friend of Edna's.

#6 Wedding: Stella Theresa Lowe, Class of 52, sister of the Bride Edna Winifred Lowe; Groom: Tom/Tex /Tommy/ Thomas Daniel Searles ; and Best Man Carol Gay Hardy

Wedding 54 - 2 L-R, Patsy Marie Gilbert, Bonnie Sanders, W. D. Roberts and Tommy Branch.

Wedding 54-1 Mr. & Mrs. ______ Roberts; W. D. Roberts,(Class of 1953, Bonnie Sanders, class of 1955

and her mother...Mrs. Helen Gilbert Sanders who was a daughter of Mr. & Mrs. A. P. Gilbert. If you know their