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- Marjorie Housman Stafford had an article "The Fateful jewel of Arva", published in Sunset Magazine, November 1907. It was a legend of how Lake Tahoe was formed when the goddess Arva threw her favorite jewel to earth.
FROM ancestry.com
Okland Tribune (Oakland, California)
02 May 1912
ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCEMENT
An engagement announced is that of Robert newell Fitch of Berkeley to Marjorie Stafford, daughter of the late W.G. Stafford of San Francisco. the news was told informally, owing to the recent death of the bride's mother. The bride-to-be has traveled widely. She is a niece of Mrs. George Searle of Alameda. Fitch is a graduate of the University of California with teh class of '09, and during his college career was yell leader and manager of the Glee club. He is a member of the Sigma Nu and is engaged in business across the bay.
FROM...
The San Francisco Call, Sunday, June 1, 1913
On Thursday there will be another set of weddings. miss marjorie Stafford and Robert Newell Fitch will be amde man and wife at an impressive ceremony in Grace church. The church attendance will be large in contrast to the informal supper and recpetion to which have been bidden only the members fo the immediate families adn the bridal party. miss Stafford will be given in marriage by her uncle, mr. john Housman of San anselmo. her costume will be the approved raiment of ivory charmeuse, heavily draped with shadow lace, and finished with a court train of brocaded satin. The bridal party will include Mrs. stanley Sharp, as matronof honor, and as bridesmaids Miss marianne Mathiew, the fiancee of Alexander Wilson jr.; Miss Roberta Lions and Miss Muriel Coombs. Mrs. Sharp will be gowned in white charmeuse veiled in pink chiffon, while the costumes of the bridesmaids will be of green and white, relieved by touches of dull blue. mr. Sharp will attend the groom as best man.
FROM ancestry.com
Oakland Tribune (Oakland, california)
05 June 1913
One of the elaborate weddings of the season, in which many on this side of the bay are interested, will take place tonight in Grace church in san Francisco, when miss marjorie Stafford will be wedded to Robert Newell Fitch. Fitch is well known here, being a graduate of the University of California, where he was manager of the Glee and De Koven clubs and a member of several honor societies and fraternities. he is at present engaged in the real estate business across the bay.
The gowns of the wedding party will be charming, a mingling of pink, dull blue and green with a background of white, making an original color motif. The bride's gown will be of white charmeuse draped in shadow lace with a long...with orange blossoms. she will wear a tulle veil with cap of orange blossoms, and will cary a shower of white orchids, lilies of the valley and orange blossoms.
Mrs. Stanley sharp, the matron of honor, will wear plae pink chiffon draped over pink satin, trimmed with rhinestones and tiny roses, and completed with a quaint forked train of white chiffon. She will hold a white staff twined with rose colored ribbon with a cluster of roses at the top.
The bridesmaids, Miss Marianne Mathieu, Miss Muriel Coombs and Miss Roberta Lyon of Alameda, will be gowned in white satin, veiled in two draperies of chiffon, the lower one of dull greenish blue and the top drapery of bright green, with gidles of cloth of silver. They will carry shower bouquets of baby roses.
Alexander Wilson, Malcolm Campbell, George Shaner, Theodore Searle, James Giffen and Charles Schnepfe will act as ushers, and Stanley Sharp wil attend the groom as best man. The bride will be given away by her uncle, John Housman of San Anselmo.
The bride is the daugter of the late Mr. and Mrs. W.G. stafford of San Francisco. Her father was a member of the Pacific Unino and Bohemian clubs and a director int eh Art Association. He was also a supervisor under Maryo Taylor.
A wedding supper will be served at the Fairmont hotel after the ceremony this evening for the intimate friends fo the young couple. Over 500 invitations have been issued for the church ceremony. Among those who will attend the supper, besides the wedding party, are Miss Fernanda Pratt, mr and mrs. Thomas Lake Miller, Richard M. Hotating, leslie Oliver of oakland, Dr. William Boericke, and a number of others.
FROM http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?action=detail&id=28486
Santa Cruz Daily Surf
Contributed by SVSueK
Description: Local: Webb, Milne, Miller, Iliff, Wise, Baldwin,
Russell, Clark, Crosby, Woods, Fitch, Stafford
Date: June 13 1913
Newspaper published in: Santa Cruz
Source: Library
Page/Column: 4
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Newell Fitch (Miss Marjorie Stafford) are
spending their honeymoon touring in the northern part of the
state. They will return June 20 and will occupy their new
home at Washington and Lyons streets. Mrs. Emma Fitch, mother
of the bridegroom, has closed her home on Jones street and
has taken an apartment at 2030 Laguna Street--S. F. Call.
DIVORCE from Robert Newell Fitch
He listed himself as single in 1917, his application for WW I Draft. Her passport information seems to indicate the divorce was finalized 23 November 1918.
TRAVELS
Marjorie and her mother, Mary (Mrs. WG Stafford) toured Europe in 1912. Mary died on the return trip. In 1919, Marjorie applied for traveling visas to vist Hong Kong, China, & Japan. She applied for an extension in 1920. She was on board the "Golden State", returning from Yokohama in 1922.
FROM www.sfgenealogy.com/sf/gnl/srv.htm
San Francisco Social Register 1927
Name: Vaes, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Emile
Maiden Name: Fitch-Marjorie Stafford
City: Pekin, china
(may be same document as found at ancestry.com, "Married Maidens" of hte social register, Volume XLI No. 11, November, 1926. Social Register Association.
On 06 Nov 1940, Marjorie S. Vaes, age 50 yrs 2 mos, born 18 Sep 1890 in San Francisco, California, a married Female, arrived in New York City on the Excambion, from Lisbon, Portugal, which sailed 27 Oct 1940. Her American address was given as 1125 Park Avenue, NYC.
AUTHOR
"Death Plays the Gramophone", a mystery novel. New York, Macmillan, 1953. 221 p. (c) Marjorie Stafford Vaes; 27 Jan 53; A76827
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