Cornelia Wiss Will Be Bride [to Roger Lyford]
Married: December 23, 1944

The Newark Evening News, December 23, 1944 p.3-3

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Cornelia Wiss Will Be Bride

Wedding to Roger Lyford, USCG, Tonight

Miss Cornelia Sprague Wiss, daughter of Mrs. Grace Valentine Wiss of Delray, Fla., and of Capt. Jerome B. Wiss, AAF, of Heywood avenue, Orange, will become the bride tonight of Roger Thurston Lyford, radio Technician, USCG. He is the son of Mrs. and Mrs. Philip Lyford of Westport, Conn.

The ceremony will be performed at 8:30 P.M. in the presence of the families and a few friends in St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, South Orange. Rev. F. Randall Williams will officiate. There will be a small reception at the Orange Lawn Tennis Club. Miss Jean Wiss will attend her sister.

The bride-elect is a junior at Smith College. Her father returned recently after serving in New Guinea. Mr Lyford attended Harvard University.