Marriage of Laura Adaline Mapes to Robert Austin Saunders
The Ithaca Journal, Nov 25 1938, P. 4
"Mrs. Margaret S. Mapes of Forest Home announces the marriage of her daughter, Laura Adaline, to Robert Austin Saunders, formerly of Albany, at 11 a, m. Wednesday, Nov. 23. The Rev. Roy S. Smyres of Horseheads, former pastor of Forest Home Chapel, officiated at the service which took place at the home of the bride in the presence of the immediate family. The house was attractively decorated with white and yellow chrysanthemums. Marion Walter of New Bloomfield, Pa., played "At Dawning," "Oh, Promise Me," and "I Love You Truly" as trumpet solos.
The bride wore burgundy velvet with a corsage of gardenias. She was attended by her sister, Miss Ann M. Mapes of New Bloomfield, Who wore teal blue with a corsage of cream-colored rosebuds. Dr. Ralph A. Maxwell of East Greenwich was best man.
After a wedding luncheon the couple left on a short trip to Washington, D. C., and other points south.
The bride was graduated from Ithaca High School and has been employed for a number of years in the Department of Agricultural Economics at Cornell. Mr. Saunders was graduated from the College of Arts and Sciences at Cornell in 1936. He is now employed by the New York State Electric and Gas Corporation.
Among those present were Dr. Maxwell and Mrs. Maxwell of East Greenwich, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene B. Atwater and daughter, Catherine, of South Lansing. Miss Ann M. Mapes and Mr. Walter of New Bloomfield, Pa., Mr. and Mrs. Albert A. Warren and family of Hereford, Md., and the Rev. Mr. Smyres, Mrs. Smyres and daughter, Ruth Emily, of Horseheads."