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- Wilmington Morning Star
North Carolina
Wednesday, June 23, 1943
Bass - Downs Wedding Held
Clinton, June 22 - Salemburg Baptist Church was the scene of a pretty June wedding Friday afternoon when Miss Sara Catherine Downs, daughter of Prof. and Mrs. Posey E. Downs of Pineland College became the bride of the Reverend Burnice G. Bass, of Clinton. The church was decorated with white candles and tall baskets of gladioli and Queen Anne’s lace, looped with white ribbon, which also marked the seats reserved near the altar.
Before the ceremony Mrs. D.M. Royal at the organ, played McDowell’s “To a Wild Rose,” and the “Andante” movement from Beethovens Fifth Symphony, and Edward Chou, of Chungking, Szechwan province, China, and Bowman Gray school of medicine sang “Believe Me, if All Those Endearing Young Charms” and “If God Left Only You”. As the bridal party entered, Mrs. Royal played Victor Herbert’s “Oh, Sweet Mystery of Life”, and the “Bridal Chorus” from Lohengrin. During the ceremony she sofly played “Liebestraum” and for the recessional, Mendelssohn’s “Wedding March”.
The bride was given in marriage by her mother. The ceremony was read by the bride’s father, a Baptist minister; and the bride’s sister, Eloise, also a graduate of Pineland College, was maid-of-honor. A younger sister, Miriam and Mrs. Crotia Bass Warren, Pineland College, were her bridesmaids. Crafton Bass, brother of the bridegroom was best man, and the Reverend Douglas Aldrich, Raleigh, and Cartell Jackson, Roseboro, were ushers.
The bridesmaids wore pink and blue organdy. The bride was dressed in white slipper satin with long fitted bodice, full flowing skirt, three-quarter sleeves, net fingertip veil held by a halo of gardenia buds. She wore a necklace of pearls and carried a bouquet of white roses showered with stephanotis. For her going-away, the bride wore a gown of light-blue summer material with navy accessories, while her corsage was fashioned from the roses in the heart of her bouquet.
Mrs. Bass, a honor student at Pineland College, later attended Meredith College where she made an excellent record. After taking post graduate courses at Wake Forest, she joined the faculty of Lexington high school where she taught English and Bible for two years. The bridegroom is the son of Lonnie D. Bass. He is a recent graduate of Wake Forest College where he was pledged to Delta Kappa Alpha ministerial students’ honorary fraternity. He is pastor of churches in Sampson and Vance counties.
In September the couple will enter the Southern Baptist Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky, for further study. Following a brief honeymoon they will be at home for the summer in Townesville.
Following the wedding a reception was held in the parlors of Pineland College for the bridal party and a large number of guests. In the morning, the couple were guests at a wedding breakfast at the apartment of Dr. and Mrs. Frank Marshburn on the college campus.
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