Betty Barr Boilesen

Betty Ann Barr Married Sunday, August 25, 1946

 

 

Engagement studio portrait with Betty Ann in her dress she purchased for her honeymoon.

 

Wedding Invitation

 

TWO DOLLARS

Receipt for Axel and Betty Boilesen Marriage License, August 22, 1946

County Court, Howard County, Nebraska

 

 

 

Newspaper clipping from the St Paul Phonograph newspaper reporting the August 25, 1946 wedding.

 

Newspaper clipping from Fay's Treasured Memories book

 

Betty Ann pictured in her wedding gown (possibly taken on their farm outside Elba)

 

 

 

 

Snapshot of wedding couple outside Cotesfield Church on August 25.

 

 

 

Miss Donna Ward, Mrs. Margaret Kennedy, Betty with Red Roses, Axel, and Truman Kennedy

 

Manley, Anna, Betty and Axel

 

Chris & Elizabeth Boilesen with son Axel and new daughter-in-law Betty

 

Very few pictures exist from the wedding day since Axel's toddler niece got a hold of the camera at the end of the day, opened the back and exposed the film.

 

 

 

 

Wedding napkin for reception, August 25, 1946

 

Ice Cream, Angel Food Cake, Fruit Cake, Salted Nuts, Coffee

 

 

 

Honeymoon in Denver, Colorado

 

 

 

Unknown location (probably in Cotesfield or Elba, at one of their parent's farms)

 

 

 

Returned to Lincoln to live at 1841 Lake Street

 

 

Chris, Lizzie, Anna, and Manley - The Parents and In-Laws, circa 1950

 

Golden Anniversary Reception, August 1996

 

50 Years Later...

 

Golden Anniversary Official Portrait, August 1996

 

 

 

 

 

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