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- The Oregonian
Saturday, December 5, 1987
Weddings
Friend-Bassett
Lillian McClure Friend wore her great-grandmother's wedding dress for her marriage to John Washington Bassett V. The two were joined in marriage by the same priest who officiated at the weddings of the bridegroom's two sisters. The November 28 ceremony took place at Grace Episcopal Cathedral in San Francisco. The Metropolitan Club in San Francisco was the site of the reception.
The bride, a graduate of Smith College in London, is the daughter of Mrs. Michael de Burbure Turnure of Salisbury, Connecticut, and Charles Wood Friend of London, England. The bridegroom, a graduate of Hastings Law School, is the son of Dr. and Mrs. John W. Bassett of Portland.
New York Times
November 29, 1987
John Bassett Wed to Lillian Friend
Lillian McClure Friend, a daughter of Charles Wood Friend of London, and Mrs. Michael Turnure of Salisbury, Connecticut, married in San Francisco yesterday to John Washington Bassett, the son of Dr. and Mrs. John Washington Bassett of Portland, Oregon. The Rev. Thomas Cummins performed the ceremony at Grace Episcopal Cathedral. The bride was attended by her sisters Barbara Turnure and Virginia Morgan and the bridegroom's sister, Katharine Burke. Hubert Lenczowski was the best man. Mrs. Bassett graduated from the Shipley School and Smith College. Her father is a vice president in the international division and the area director of Nordic countries for the J. Walter Thompson Company in London. The bride's stepfather is president of Community Lumber and Hardware of Lakeville and Sharon, Connecticut and Millerton, New York. Mr. Bassett, a graduate of Stanford University and the University of California Hastings College of Law, is an associate with the San Francisco law firm of Niven & Smith. His father is a surgeon in Portland. He is a grandson of the late Dr. Udo Wile, chairman of the department of dermatology at the University of Michigan for forty years.
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