Cpl. Beebe Is Wed to Sergeant
Pearl river, N.Y. -- On Friday afternoon at 4 o;'clock in the First Lutheran church, Rev. E.B. Buller officiated at the double ring nuptial ceremony when Cpl. Marion Beebe, daughter of Mr and Mrs William Beebe, 414 Oaklawn avenue, Waterloo, became the bride of Staff Sgt. Donald Opdyke, son of Mrs A. Hazel Opdyke, of Ocean Grove, N.J,
The couple will return the fist of the week to Camp Shanks, N.Y., where they are both stationed with a medical detachment of the station hospital there.
The bride attended Iowa State Teachers college in Cedar Falls for two years, after which she was employed in the methods department of the John Deere Tractor company, Waterloo, until last March, when she enlisted in the WAC. She took her basic training at Fort Des Moines and has been stationed at Camp Shank since April.
Sergeant Opdyke attended an eastern college and as a laboratory technician before his induction t he army 15 months ago.
Source: The Courier (Waterloo) October 31, 1943 (photo included)
Where Are Those GI Janes Since They've Again Become Civilians?
What has happened to those Waterloo girls who looked so smart in Wave, Wac or Spar uniforms, traveled the country and the world and the were discharged from service to return to civilian life?
Well, many of them were married while in the service and have settled in other states or brought their husbands to Waterloo to live. Still others entered new fields of work and have gone on to college through the benefits of education provision of the GI bill of rights.
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One Waterloo girl who was married while in the service and now is taking advantage of the educational benefits along with her husband is Mrs. Donald Opdyke, the former Marion Beebe.
As a Wac, she met her future husband while they were stationed as technicians in a hospital at Camp Shanks, N.Y. Now both Mr. and Mrs. Opdyke are enrolled in the University of Colorado in Boulder. The ex-Wac is the daughter of William Beebes, 414 Oaklawn avenue, and her husband's hometown is Ocean Grove, N.J.
Source: The Courier (Waterloo) Sunday, March 9, 1947
