Pennsylvania Families

St. Petersburg Times - Aug 7, 1949
BILLUPS, KOHLER

Mrs. Thomas Franklin Billups, 820 Fifteenth Avenue South, is announcing the engagement and approaching marriage of her daughter, Virginia Ruth, to Joseph Silas Kohler, son of Mrs. Joseph Anthony Kohler, 1761 Nineteenth Street South, and the late Mr. Kohler.

Miss Billups, daughter of the late Thomas Franklin Billups, graduated from Senior High School and the Tomlinson School of Beauty Culture.

Mr. Kohler graduated from Sarasota High School and has been with Southern Dairies Incorporated for the past five and a half years.

The wedding will take place at 2 p.m., Aug. 14 at Grace Methodist Church. Harris De Weese will officiate.

Mrs. Leslie Kohler and Alvin W. Kohler, brother of the bridegroom, will serve as attendants.

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Shower announcement in the Aug 6, 1949 St. Petersburg Times. Shower given by Mrs. Robert C. Taylor. Other names mentioned were Mrs. Joseph A. Kohler, mother of the groom, and a Mrs. Lee Truax.

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August 18, 1949 Tampa Bay Times
Miss Virginia Ruth Billups, daughter of Mrs Thomas Franklin Billups, 820 Fifteenth Avenue South, became the bride of Joseph Silas Kohler, son of Mrs Joseph Anthony Kohler, at 2 pm Sunday afternoon. The wedding took place at Grace Methodist Church ... Harris De Wese officiated.