News item in Toronto Daily Star, pg. 20, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, February 21, 1945.

RICHARD PENTON WEDS MISS BLANCHE MILLER

Miss Blanche Miller and L.A.C. Richard Bruce Penton, R.C.A.F., were married by Rev. Sextus Stiles in St. Olaves Anglican church, Feb. 17. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Miller, St. Catharines. The groom, stationed at Camp Borden, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Leigh Penton, St. Clarens Ave. Stuart Roseveare played wedding music. Given in marriage by her father, the bride wore a torso gown of white satin with long train. It was fashioned with a high neckline, net yoke and princess skirt. Her long tulle veil fell from a headdress of pearls and she carried red roses and while Calla lilies. Mrs. Christine Penton, matron-of-honor, wore a gown of forget-me-not blue taffeta. The bridesmaids, Miss Shirley Bell and Miss Gloria Trevenna, were in dawn rose gowns matching the matrons-of-honor. The shade of their hats harmonized with their dresses and they carried pink carnations, white sweet peas and babys breath. Sergt. John Johnson, R.C.A.F., was best man, and guests were ushered by John Strathearn, Stkr, Robert Miller, R.C.N., brides brother. At a reception held at the home of the grooms aunt, Mrs. Walter S. McBean, Grenadier Heights, the brides mother received wearing a street-length mauve crepe dress with black accessories and corsage of yellow roses. The grooms mother, also receiving, was in a street-length navy blue dress with black accessories. She wore a corsage of red roses. For the wedding trip to the U.S., the bride changed to a green dressmaker suit with brown accessories and brown muskrat coat. The couple will live in Toronto.

Proceedings in The Globe and Mail, pg. 45, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, February 1, 1968.