Paul Garman Deeter ^10173,10188

Daily Kennebec Journal
Augusta, Maine
Tuesday, June 17, 1941
p. 7

Dorothy Edwards Weds Paul Deeter at Monmouth June 15

Monmouth, June 15 - Miss Dorothy Elise Edwards, daughter of Mrs. Winifred Edwards and the late William H. Edwards, Jr. and Paul Garman Deeter of Winthrop; son of Mr. and Mrs. John S. Deeter of Pittston, Pa. were married Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock at the home of the bride's mother. The Rev. Charles T. Brown, pastor of the United Church, performed the service, the single ring ceremony being used.

The decorations were of ferns and garden bouquets.

The bride was gowned in a white redingote costume with white accessories and carried white roses and gypsophila. The maid of honor, Miss Margaret Edwards, her sister, of Lewiston, wore a blue redingote and carried pink roses. The bridegroom's attendant was Norman H. Edwards, a brother of the bride.

A reception followed the ceremony and Miss Helen Gordon and Miss Mary Flanders assisted Mrs. Gladys Blake in serving refreshments. Miss Eleanor Moore had charge of the guest book.

The bride attended the schools in Monmouth and was graduated from Monmouth Academy this year. Mr. Deeter was graduated from the West Pittston High School in the class of 1937, and is now employed at the Woolworth estate.

Among the guests from out of town were Mr. and Mrs. John Ellis of Franklin, Mass., Mrs. Edna Ellis of North Anson, Peter Saka, Mrs. Thomas Sylus and Miss Chrissie Ross of Winthrop.

Mr. and Mrs. Deeter will make their home in town.

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The Times Leader
Wilkes-Barre, Penn.
Friday, April 28, 2000
p. 5A

PAUL DEETER

Paul G. Deeter, of RR 1, West Pittston, died Wednesday at the Wilkes-Barre General Hospital.

He was born Sept. 20, 1918, in West Pittston. He was a graduate of West Pittston High School and was a steelworker at Ferlus Hill Co., Philadelphia. He was a member of Kingston Lodge 395 F & AM.

He was preceded in death by his first wife, Mildred Deeter.

Surviving are his second wife, the former Gertrude Hanson Coolbaugh; stepsons, Dale Coolbaugh, Tunkhannock; and Dennis Coolbaugh, Harding; stepdaughter, Diane Dougher, Nanticoke; sister, Elizabeth Space, Middletown, N.Y.

Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at the Howell-Lussi Funeral Home, 509 Wyoming Ave., West Pittston, with the Minister Rob Shaw officiating. Friends may call from 10 to 11 a.m. Saturday. Interment will be in Mountain View Burial Park, Harding, Exeter Township.

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• He had a residence in Pittston, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.

Paul married Dorothy Elise Edwards, daughter of William Henry Edwards Jr. and Winifred Alice Gott, 15 June 1941 in Monmouth, Kennebec County, Maine.¹⁰¹⁸⁸ The marriage ended in divorce. (Dorothy Elise Edwards was born 20 March 1923 in Augusta, Kennebec County, Maine,¹⁰¹⁹⁰ died 7 November 1998 in Portland, Cumberland County, Maine ¹⁰¹⁹⁰ and was buried after 7 November 1998 in Monmouth, Kennebec County, Maine at Monmouth Ridge Cemetery ¹⁰¹⁹⁰.)