The Charleston Daily Mail
Charleston, West Virginia
2 January, 1950

Miss Gillilan Bride
Of Robert DuLaney

   Miss Natalie Gillilan, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Steele Michael Gillilan of Lewisburg, became the bride on Wednesday of Mr. Robert Fudge DuLaney, son of Mrs. W. R. DuLaney of Montgomery and the late Mr. DuLaney. The double ring ceremony was performed by Rev. Carden A. Hillman in the Lewisburg Methodist church.
   The bride, who was given in marriage by her father, wore a floor-length gown of slipper satin fashioned with a wide embroidered bertha, cap sleeves, a fitted bodice and full gathered skirt. She carried a white Bible, topped with an orchid and a cascade of streamers caught with sprigs of heather, and wore a headdress of imported illusion and lace with a shoulder-length veil.
   Miss Phyllis Hodapp of Clarksburg was her maid of honor and only attendant. She wore a floor-length gown of light and dark green tissue faille. A picture collar was puffed high in the back and tapered low in the front. The gown was made with a fitted bodice and full skirt caught up at the side with light and dark green bows. Her colonial bouquet was of poinsettias.
   Mr. Andrew Serrett of Montgomery, a cousin of the bridegroom, was best man and ushers were Messrs. George L. Vickers and Raymond Thomas, also of Montgomery.
   Following the ceremony a reception was held at the Oake Terrace hotel in Lewsiburg. Afterwards the couple left for Athens, Ga., where they will make their home.
   Young Mrs. DuLaney attended West Virginia Wesleyan college, where she was a member of Sigma Delta Chi social sorority, Beta Beta Beta national honorary biology fraternity and Benzine Ring. She was graduated from the School of Medical Technology of Miami Valley hospital in Dayton, O., and was employed as medical technologist in the laboratories of Laird Memorial hospital in Montgomery.
   The bridegroom is attending the University of Georgia, where he is a member of Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity and Forestry club. He is a veteran of World War II.

-- transcription by Kate Maynard, 2010