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  Husband | Male Melvin Michael Mathis
  Birth	15 August 1935
  Died	25 July 2005	Rome, Floyd, Georgia, USA
  Buried
  Married	22 July 1956	Rome, Floyd, Georgia, USA
  Father	George Felix Mathis | F2744 Group Sheet
  Mother	Rebecca Belle Nix | F2744 Group Sheet
  Wife | Female Ellen Olivia Trammell
  Birth	15 August 1936
  Died	10 March 2000
  Buried
  Father	George Clinton Trammell, Jr | F148 Group Sheet
  Mother	Mary Elizabeth Ross | F148 Group Sheet
  Children
  Child 1 | Female Living
  Birth
  Died
  Buried
  Child 2 | Male Living
  Birth
  Died
  Buried
  Child 3 | Female Living
  Birth
  Died
  Buried

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• Notes

  Married: Miss Ellen Olivia Trammell Is Melvin Mathis’s Bride        The North Rome Methodist Church was the setting at 5 yesterday afternoon for the marriage of Miss Ellen Olivia Trammell, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Trammell, and Melvin Mathis, whose parents are Mr. and Mrs. G. F. Mathis. The Rev. Jack W. Lamb read the two-ring ceremony.        Pat Trammell, Fred Mathis, Harold Gresham and Jimmy Mathis, ushers, seated guests while Miss Virginia Shiflett, organist, and Everett Porter Jr, vocalist, presented a program of music. Mr. Porter sang “Always” and “At the End of a Perfect Day.”        The front of the church was canopied in greenery and in the foreground were baskets of white gladioli; and many mounted white candles were burning when the couple took their marital vows.        Miss Nancy Ross, cousin of the bride, was her maid of honor, and another cousin was bridesmaid Miss Angela Kokal, of Marietta, and Connie Trammell, junior maid and Carol Trammell, young sister of the bride, her flower girl.        The bride’s attendants wore lovely dresses, cocktail length, of nylon net over matching taffeta. The maid of honor chose cashmere blue; the bridesmaid mint green; the junior maid dawn pink and the pretty flower girl white with a wide blue sash which tied in a big bow. The attendants’ dresses were styled exactly alike. They carried fan-shaped bouquets of asters in pastel tints, with matching ties.        As the bride and her father came down a central church aisle, the bridegroom and his best man, Gene Mathis, stood before the greenery banked altar. Bridal gown organdy        The bride was lovely in her summer wedding gown of snow white imported organza made over white taffeta. Ruffles cascading in the back extended into a train. The fitted bodice was of chantilly lace made over taffeta. The sleeves of lace were elbow length and her veil of bridal illusion fell from a Juliet cap encrusted with pearls. She carried a prayer book marked with a white orchid. Lovely reception        Before Mr. Mathis and his bride left to spend their honeymoon at an unannounced destination, they were guests of honor at a reception at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Anthony, aunt and uncle of the bride, on Turner Chapel Road.        Rooms were adorned with arrangements of gladioli in pastel tints and many white blossoms.        A cloth of white damask covered the bride’s table and the three-tiered wedding cake was topped with miniature figures of bride and bridegroom. Punch and the wedding cake were served and bridal mints and nuts filled silver and crystal compotes.        Mrs. R. C. Jones Jr, of Clearwater, Fla., a cousin of the bride, registered guests in the bride’s book.        Mrs. Trammell, the bride’s mother, wore a dress of pink lace posed over matching pink taffeta and her accessories navy blue; her shoulder spray white roses; Mrs. Mathis, mother of the bridegroom, wore a silk shantung model combining navy and white and her accessories were navy. She wore pink rosebuds.        Mrs. Mathis, the bride, when she left to spend her honeymoon at an unannounced destination, wore her bridal orchid pinned to her dress of slate grey glazed cotton and her accessories were white.        On their return, Mr. and Mrs. Mathis will be at home in an apartment in the Perry, on East Third Street.        Among those coming from out of town to the wedding were: Mrs. Mable Barre, of Beaumont, Texas; Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Jones Jr, of Clearwater, Florida; Mr. and Mrs. Roy W. Green, of Athens; Miss Julia Wooten, Mr. and Mrs. “Buddy” Butler, Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Avery, Mrs. Lelia Trammell, of Atlanta; Mr. and Mrs. August Kokal, of Marietta, and Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Trammell, of Dalton. [1]

• Sources

  1. [S96] RRoss: Trammell-Mathis Wedding, (Rome News-Tribune, 23 July 1956)