50th Wedding Anniversary, held on July 19, 1967 for : Lloyd George & Frances Violet HUGHES-KELLERMAN:
According to Mr. & Mrs. Lloyd G. [George] KELLERMAN of 418 Frazier av., "a happy marriage is one that starts out with the idea that there is no other way for it to be."
The couple started their marriage that way 50 years ago. A celebration in their honor will be held Saturday from 7 to 10 p.m. at the Metropolitan Parks Newton Street Shelter House.
Mr. & Mrs. KELLERMAN were married July 19, 1917, at Niagra Falls, N.Y.
Mr. KELLERMAN, 70, was born in Milesburg, Pa., but was working for a corset factory in Niagara Falls when he met his bride at an ice cream social.
She had moved with her family from Lewistown, Pa. After their marriage, they moved to Akron and have lived here 49 years.
Mr. KELLERMAN retired in 1962 with 44 years service at Goodyear. A 32nd degree Mason, he is a member of Joppa Lodge F&AM; the Goodyear 25-year Club, and the Goodyear Photographry Club. He is an avid fisheran and woodworker.
Mrs. Violet HUGHES_KELLERMAN, 69, says she keeps things going while Mr. KELLERMAN is off fishing. She is active in the Rachel Circle at Grace Methodist Church, where they both are members.
Both enjoy traveling and have gone camping as far away as Alaska.
They have a daughter, Mrs. Helen ROTH of Akron; sons William of Glen Ellyn, Ill. and Fred of Euclid, and 10 grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
"With good health, satisfaction with the material things we have, and each other, there is little to be unhappy about," say the KELLERMANs.
Due to the conditions, in the then not to flush times, it was decided that our wedding be a rather quiet one.
It was held in the parsonage of the Rev. Ira PARVIN, of the Methodist Church in Niagara Falls, N.Y. with a few of Violet's relatives being present. Immediately afterwards, a reception was held at her house on Ontario St. with just members of her family being present.
We spent the balance of the day alone in PROSPECT PARK and GOAT ISLAND taking pictures and just loafing around talking, making plans and trying to visualize what the future might hold for us.
Both of us were filled with lofty hopes and like all very young, married couples, little relized the full significance of this most important step.
Neither of us had any doubts as to how the future would work out, we had each other and that was all that mattered at the moment.
Our work schedule prevented us going on a Honeymoon until sometime later when we then spent several weeks in the mountains of Pennsylvania among our many relatives and friends. Here we must say that all of them went overboard to make this event a most happy one.
By the beginning of 1918, we decided that my future with the MILLER & STRONG Drug Co. was not too bright and our fortunes lay elsewhere.
On March 9th of that year (Violet arriving one week later) we came to Akron, Ohio where on March 12th I went to work for the Goodyear Tire + Rubber Co. where I was employed for fourty-four years.
After thought: Our first born (Helen) was then a baby in arms and our first home in Akron was with some very good friends - Harry and Amelia HAFER - at 1275 Third Ave.
Activities really started four days early. This was due to the place where the reception was to be held not being available at a later date.
Friday, the 14th, our son, William, wife Helen and their two boys, Keith and Tom arrived from Chicago. That evening, we went to the Polish American Club on Dan St. for a fish dinner.
Sat. the 15th, Violet's brothers, Leath and Dick, with their wives, Edna and Nora, from Niagara Falls came. Our daughter, Helen, husband, Art with their son, Paul and daughter, Marcia came from Ellet, so we had a cookout on our patio - barbequed chicken, short ribs, etc. This was a nice family gathering with our granddaughter-in-law, Barbara ROTH and son, Will (our grandson) being present.
In the evening, our son Fred amd wife, Adrienne of Euclid, their daughter, Sidney abd husband, David (WELSH), and sons Scott & Todd and daughter, Robin; my brothers, Bob, wife, Irene and daughter, Pamela, from PA., Bill and wife, Maxine, of Akron, nieces Louise BRANCH and husband George, Kay LIVINGSTON with daughter, Andrea (the nieces being daughters of my brother, Bill) all arrived in time for the reception. Louise and husband flew in from Baltimore.
The reception was held in the Metropolitan Park Shelter House on Newton St. from 7:00 p.m. to 10 p.m. This was the real high-light of this gala occasion. Near one-hundred people attended, a few which were from as far away as Florida.
After the reception, all of the family and relatives along with a few friends came back to our house for a party which did not break up until near three a.m.
Sunday morning, the 16th, some of the out of town relatives left for home and in the afternoon, the balance of us went to our daughter and husband's home in Ellet for a pizza pie lunch.
Monday morning, the 17th, our son William and family left and they being the last ones to leave, it is needless to say here that it was a most sudden let-down for us after such a memorable and exciting week end.
We received around one hundred cards, a few letters and a telegram along with Fifty-two beautiful and useful gifts, so on Mon. and Tues. the 17th and 18th, we did nothing but loaf around, arrange the gifts, take pictures of them and show them off to various folks who called.
BY Wed., the 19th, our anniversary, we were pretty much relaxed, so I went bowling for a couple of hours in the afternoon. In the evening, along with a couple of our friends, Max and Ruby TAYLOR, we went to the Country Kitchen (Amish restaurant) in Hartville and had a very fine dinner. Afterwards, the four of us took a long pleasant ride in the country in the TAYLOR's Chrysler Imperial. We were back home by eight-thirty, where we sat and chatted for a couple of hours and thus ended one of the most memorable and happy periods of our married life.
At such a hectic and exciting time as this, there are bound to be some errors and oversights made and anyone who may feel that they were forgotten or slighted in any way, we hope you will accept our heartfelt apologies.
It is most gratifying to learn that so many people think of you at such a time and help make the occasion a happy one. It also created no little glow to know that one's immediate family thinks enough of you to instigate and arrange this most wonderful event. We hope we are worthy of it.