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[[preprinted]]Our Wedding Journey[[/preprinted]] [[image - flowers]] On Tuesday afternoon July 11-1939 at 4:40 Pm. we got aboard the T.&P. going west for Dallas Texas. Arriving in Dallas at 7:45 Pm the same afternoon. We were met by Mr. H.B. Pemberton Jr. (brother) and carried immediately to their beautiful home, where we were cordially greeted by Mrs. Pemberton, Nedra, Alonzo and a group of lovely friends. Rev. & Mrs. L.L. Haynes, Mrs. Hornsby, Mr. & Mrs. Jesse L. Brown, Mr. & Mrs. Ira L. Moore, Mr. & Mrs. Merritt Keary, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Mr. & Mrs. Steve Gulley, Miss Armenda Haynes, Mr. Taylor. After a few congratulations by friends we chatted lustily. Refreshments were served in the beautiful dining room. Dainty molded salad, cold sliced meat, melon balls, brown & white bread ice tea. The living room was decorated with gladioli & fern. At 10:30 Pm, we aboarded the Katy for Denison Texas. being greeted there by Mr & Mrs Organ & Claudesta. Then on to Tulsa Okla. our final destination for a few weeks. [[end page]] [[start page]] [[preprinted]]Our Honeymoon[[/preprinted]] [[article clipping]] MARSHALL COUPLE ENTERTAINED Mr. and Mrs. Grover J. Allen (nee Lollaretta Pemberton, Marshall, Texas), were entertained with a reception at the beautiful home of Mrs. Allen's brother, Mr. H. B. Pemberton, Jr., 3707 State Street, when they stopped in Dallas en route to Tulsa, Dklahoma. The Allen's were married with very impressive ceremonies Monday evening, July 11, at 8:00 p.m., in a lovely garden wedding at the home of the bride's father, Prof. H. B. Pemberton, Sr., in Marshall, and left shortly thereafter for Tulsa where they will spend a two weeks' honeymoon prior to taking up residence at the home of the groom in Chicago. Mrs. Allen was formerly home economics teacher in the Marshall school system. [[/article clipping]] [[article clipping]] [[line]] Chicagoan is Guest Of the Pembertons Mrs. Larita Allen of Chicago was the recent house guest of her brother and sister-in-law, Dr, and Mrs. C. W. Pemberton. She was honored at a dinner given by Mrs. Ed Starks. Dr. Pemberton and O. K. Manning left for St. Louis to attend an executive meeting of the National Negro Business League. [[/article clipping]] [[article clipping]] SHE?.. I'll say she is ... RIT PEMBERTON became the bride of MR. GROVER J. ALLEN, former Tulsan in a beautiful wedding at Marshal, Texas, more than a week ago ... She was christened LOLLARETTA but is known to Texans and former Wiley College students as just RITA .. Mr. Allen's mother is MRS. GEORGIA FREENEY, 444 E. Newton and Rita's parents are one of Texas' most outstanding ones. Her father PROF. H. B. PEMBERTON is the principal of the High School at Marshall and is considered one of the best educators the lone star state has ever produced.. The ALLENS stopped here enroute to their home in Chicago.. Oh yes RITA was a member of the faculty in the high school at Marshall too ... Through the courtesy of DOLMAN ... our ad getter and prominent G. O. P. man .. they visited at the Eagle office .. NO - [[/article clipping]] [[article clipping]] PEMBERTON, ALLEN NUPTIALS ATTRACT NATIONAL INTEREST [[2 columns]] [[column 1]] MARSHALL, Texas - Unusual interest centered around the beautiful wedding ceremony Monday evening at eight o'clock p.m., which united Miss Lollaretta Elizabeth Pemberton, daughter of Professor and Mrs. H. B. Pemberton, and Grover Joseph Allen, son of Mrs. J. G. Allen of Chicago, Illinois, on the verdant lawn of the bride's parents. Reverend A. W. Harley officiated at the ceremonies which were witnessed by a throng of socialites and intimate friends of the family. Varied colored zinnias filled tall baskets and jardiniers which decorated the lawn. The improvised altar of assorted summer flowers with fern encircled in a wedding band made of gladioli and gypsy sophila with a background as a fan-shaped standard made of woodwardia, peach-colored gladioli with gypsy sophila presented a picture of exquisite loveliness. The bridal aisle was marked by white posts joined with white stain ribbons and tied with maline bows with sweetheart rosebuds. Preceding the ceremony, Mrs. A. L. Walton sang "I Promise You." with Miss Mae Francis Blick as the accompanist. Then as the muted tones of Mendelssohn's Wedding March played by Miss Willie Ruth Harlee floated out on the lawn, the bride entered from the front corridor on the arm of her father, Professor H. B. Pemberton, Sr., who gave her in marriage. The bride was a picture of grace and beauty, wearing an imported gown of silk net and real lace designed with a basque waist, full circular skirt ending in a long circular train of lace and net, sweetheart neckline, and puffed sleeves banded with lace and a full length veil caught in a halo with a narrow band of waxed orange blossoms. She wore long white gloves and moire slippers bordered with silver. She carried a Colonial bouquet of white orchids with iris and lilies of the valley with maidenhair fern tied with silver and white satin ribbon in a disc trimmed with flutted lace. Mrs. C. H. Organ, her sister, attended the bride as matron of honor. She wore a shell pink chiffon gown and carried a Colonial bouquet of pink rosebuds, gypsy sophila and asparagus fern. She work pink rosebuds in her hair. Miss Nedra Pemberton attended the bride as maid of honor wearing a lovely white dotted organdy and carried a Colonial bouquet of the same type as Mrs. Organ. The bridesmaids, Misses Forrest Shelton, granddaughter of Dr. M. W. Dogan, and Claudesta Organ, niece of the bride, wore white net frocks with lace insertion and aquamarine accessories. They carroed Colonial bouquets of pink rosebuds and gypsy sophila with asparagus fern. The flower girls, nieces of the bride, Rose Cecil White and Rosa [[/column 1]] [[column 2]] [[line]] Marie Willard, wore white net over white satin slips with pink bows and carried miniature bouquets of pink rosebuds and asparagus fern. They wore pink buds in their hair. LaRita Yvonne White and Nora Lee Williard, dainty and petite nieces of the bride, were train bearers and looked beautiful in blue net frocks over pink satin with sprays of pink rosebuds in their hair. Mr. Allen was attended by Dr. Charles S. Pemberton, brother of the bride, as best man, and Alonza Pemberton and Claud Organ, Jr., as ushers. They wore white suits with navy blue ties, handkerchiefs, and boutonnieres. The junior ushers, Sol White, Jr., and Harry Pemberton Organ wore white suits with the same accessories as the best man. Mrs. H. B. Pemberton, mother of the bride, was queenly in white crepe. She wore a shoulder corsage of Talisman roses. A reception was held after the ceremony at the home of the bride's parents. The bride's table was laid with a linen Maderia table cover with handmade filet lace and decorated with an arrangement of crystal leaves and white gladioli. White tapers burned in crystal candelabra. Mrs. Stella Starks of Houston presided at the white satined iced wedding cake which rested on a reflector and was decorated with an orchid, lilies of the valley and white roses. Mrs. A. M. Clark was in charge of the bride's white moirebook. Mr. and Mrs. Allen left after the reception for Dallas, Texas; Tulsa, Oklahoma, and other points where they will visit relatives and friends. For traveling the bride wore a triple black sheer with a white pin stripe with black slippers. Her other accessories were white and she wore a shoulder corsage of white orchids. The couple will be at home, 5445 South Michigan avenue, Chicago Illinois, after their wedding trip. Mrs. Allen is a graduate of Prairie View State college and Tuskegee Institute. She was a popular teacher in the high school. Mr. Allen is a well-known postoffice employee. The couple received many expensive and beautiful gifts. A yellow gold Bulova set with diamonds was the groom's gift to the bride. Out-of-town guests at the ceremony were: Mrs. Sella Starks of Houston, Texas; Mr. and Mrs. Sol White and children of Beaumont, Texas; Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Organ and family of Denison, Texas; Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Willard and family of Beaumont. Texas; Prof. and Mrs. H. B. Pemberton, Jr., of Dallas, Texas; Miss Nedra Pemberton of Dallas; Alonza Pemberton of Dallas, Texas, and Dr. and Mrs. Charles Pemberton of Houston, Texas. The response of the many white friends to extended invitations was indeed gracious and appreciable many witnessing the ceremony with local friends which was performed on the pretty Pemberton lawn. [[/column 2]]
