Ukiah Republic Press August 15, 1945

Miss Lillian Christine MacKenzie and Cleveland Hopkins were united in marriage in the historic Park Street Church, Boston, at four o’clock Saturday, August 11. The ceremony was performed in the main auditorium of the edifice in the presence of about 300 guests by Dr. Harold John Ockenga, one of the outstanding ministers of the country. He has been invited year after year to speak at Christian Endeavor Conferences in California. Those who have attended such meetings at Mt. Hermon will remember him.

The Church was beautifully decorated for the happy occasion with a very artistic and attractive arrangement of ferns and gladioli.

The service opened with a half hour organ recital by Dr. John H. Land. “The Lord’s Prayer” was sung by Arthur Bowler, a classmate who graduated with the bride from Gordon College in June. After the bride’s mother had been escorted to the family pew by the ushers, Arthur Bowler sang the solo “Because.” The bride was given in marriage by her father.

The beautiful young woman was becomingly attired in a lovely wedding gown of white satin and lace made with a train. Her costume was completed with a veil of white net in finger-tip length. Miss Mary MacKenzie, a sister of the bride, acted as maid of honor and wore a beautiful costume of pink lace and marquisette. The charming little flower girl, Starr Ockenga, the six-year-old daughter of the officiating minister, wore a dress of pink lace and marquisette, an exact duplicate in design of that of the maid of honor. The bridesmaids were Esther Forsythe, a classmate of the bride at Gordon College, and Edith MacKenzie, a sister-in-law of the bride. The bridesmaids were dressed in blue marquisette. All of the bride’s attendants carried old-fashioned bouquets in colors that conformed to the wedding color scheme of pink and blue. Dr. C. Howard Hopkins, a professor at the Theological Seminary at Bangor, Maine, who is the older brother of the groom, was the best man.

The ushers were Alfred MacKenzie, brother of the bride, and two young men who were associates of the groom at the Laboratories of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Following the wedding ceremony, a reception was held in the Blue room at the church.

Over the weekend, the young couple were registered at the Copley Plaza Hotel in Boston. They flew to Bangor, Maine, Sunday, where they were dinner guests at the home of Dr. and Mrs. C. Howard Hopkins and their young son, Peter Howard Hopkins. They are enjoying a ten-day honeymoon at York’s Twin Pines Camp, Millinocket, Maine.

The bride, who is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John M. MacKenzie, of Somerville, Mass., was born on Prince Edward Island, Canada. In June of this year, she graduated from Gordon College, Boston. She is a very talented and charming young woman. The groom, Cleveland Hopkins, is the second son of C. B. Hopkins and the late Lucia C. Hopkins. He is a member of one of the first families of Ukiah and has a host of friends in this country who will wish him and his lovely young bride all possible happiness and prosperity in life.