77 Years Ago: Wedding of Malissia Dunn & Weldon Fortenberry, 1945 MS

 

Weldon Willis Fortenberry

b 21 June 1920 Osyka, MS

Son of Willis Franklin Fortenberry & Ivy May Smith 

Married 27 January 1945

 

Malissia Dunn Bride of Sergeant Weldon Fortenberry

 

 

Progress, Feb. 2 – A wedding of much interest in Progress and surrounding communities was that of Miss Malissia Dunn, of Bode, Miss., to Sgt. Weldon W. Fortenberry.

 

The double ring ceremony was said briefly and impressively at the First Baptist parsonage Saturday, January 27 at 6:30 o’clock in the evening, with the Rev. Wyatt R. Hunter officiating.

 

Attendants were Mrs. M. H. Blackwell of McComb, sister of the bride, and Miss Pansy Fortenberry of Jackson, Miss., sister of the bridegroom.

 

The bride was lovely in a becoming white wool crepe frock with which she wore black accessories.

 

Mrs. Fortenberry is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Dunn of Bode, Miss., and has been employed at the Gulf States Utilities in Baton Rouge during the past eighteen months.

 

Sgt. Fortenberry is the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Fortenberry of Progress, is now enjoying a furlough home after serving for three years in the South Pacific.

 

After his furlough the couple will go to Miami, Florida, where Sgt. Fortenberry will be given a new assignment.

 

 

Source: Malissia Dunn Bride of Sergeant Weldon Fortenberry. (McComb, MS: Enterprise – Journal, 2 Feb 1945) 6; digital image, Newsspapers.com: accessed March 2021.