Mary Bledsoe and Gilbert Robbins Marriage

(cont.) Mary Beth Tomlinson.

Robert Carroll served as best man for the bridegroom, while ushers were Benton Minor, Patton C. McNaughton. Robert Zachman and Bert Baylin. During the service, the Roger Wagner Chorale, accompanied at the organ by the director, sang. The new Mrs. Robbins is a member of the chorus. The bride was graduated from Marymount School and attended UCLA where she was a flutist with the band. She is affiliated with Mu Phi Epsilon. The bridegroom was graduated from Polytechnic High School and attended UCLA where he was a member of Phi Mu Alpha and was a drum major and assistant director of the band. He played with the Long Beach Philharmonic Orchestra. After a honeymoon at Coronado the couple will be at home at Selma, Ala., where the bridegroom is stationed at Craig AFB.

Nuptial Mass Unites Popular Young Pair - Radiant in Chantilly lace over nylon net, the former Miss Mary Cecelia Bledsoe, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Maynard Bledsoe of Westwood Hills, walked down the aisle of St. Paul the Apostle's Church at Westwood to exchange marriage vows with Gilbert.Lee Robbins, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Robbins of 6750 Olive Ave. Rev. Paul V. Maloney officiated at the High Mass ceremony yesterday morning.

Given away in marriage by her father, the bride carried a bouquet of cascading daisies and ivy. Her scalloped bodice was edged with seed pearls and her French illusion fingertip-length veil fell from a tiara of seed pearls. Miss Celeste Maisonville attended the bride as maid of "honor. Bridesmaids were Misses Jackie Fischer, Mary Margaret Ruddock, June DeWees and

Source: Press-Telegram (Newspaper) - July 13, 1952, Long Beach, California