KOGER-BURNSIDE
Former Abilene Girl And Dawson County Ranchman To Marry Today
Marriage of Evelyn Secrest Burnside, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Burnside of Lamesa, and Robert Curtis Koger, son of C. C. Koger, prominent Dawson and Martin county ranchman, will be solemnized this morning at 9 o'clock in the Lamesa Presbyterian church. The bride will wear a costume suit of beige crepe with cape trimmed in dyed fox and accessories if coronation blue. She will carry sweetheart roses and lillies of the valley. Vanabel Clark, maid of honor, will wear a navy blue chiffon with yellow accessories and carry an armshaft if yellow snapdragons. The bridesmaids, Jack Hart, Edith May Collins, Ruth Lee Stuart and Roberta Lee Harrison of Big Spring, will be dressed in frocks of pastel hues and each will carry a bouquet corresponding in color to her gown.
Abilenian to Sing
Arphice Spikes of Lubbock, roommate of the bridegroom when he was a student for three years in Texas Tech, will serve as his best man, Charlie Still of Lubbock, Stanley Wilkes, Loyd Morgan and Herbert Rule of Lamesa will he his other attendants. Ushers are to be George Gable, Dick Collins, C. L. Schmidt, L. J. Dugger, Paul Morgan and Vernon Smith. Mrs. A. B. Barnard will give the wedding music and will also play the accompaniments for Mrs. S. M. Alexander of Abilene to sing Oh Promise Me, and for Kate Weaver Moore to sing "Because."
Following her graduation from the Lamesa high school, Miss Burnside was for two years a student in Texas Tech, where she held membership in Sans Souci social club. Mr. Koger, also a Lamesa high school graduate, did three years work at Tech and held membership there in Wranglers fraternity. Since the announcement of her approaching marriage, Miss Burnside has been honored at many social affairs given by her friends in Lamesa and Lubbock. Immediately after the ceremony, the couple will leave for a short wedding trip, returning to their new home on the Koger ranch 12 miles south of La Mesa.
Out of town guests will be Pat Secrest of Hamilton; Frances Burns, Mrs. Edna Alexander, Mrs. Rupert Harkrider, Mrs. Henry Sayles, Mrs. J. L. McDavid and Bill Yager of Abilene; Mrs. A. O. Harvey of Temple; Mrs. Letched D. King of Austin; Clara Secrest, Big Spring; Ruth Thompson, Plainview; Jane Wilson, Kay Donohue, Mary and Henry Sue Boone, Mary Ross Edwards, Ellen K. Clapp, Mary K. Agerton, Porter Parris, George Hale, George Zarafonetis, Tox Wigginton, Chape Chappin, Bill Collins of Lubbock
[Abilene Reporter News, April 25, 1937, transcribed by, Amanda Jowers]

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