Couple Wed in Funeral Parlor

California, 1926

Superstition?
It doesn't bother MISS ELIZABETH G. EDWARDS, Berkeley girl, who became MRS. ERNEST FRANDSEN yesterday at a wedding in an Oakland funeral parlor.

COUPLE WED IN FUNERAL PARLOR

Undertaker's Helper Finds No Gloom in Chapel, He Tells Friends.

Love laughs at lots of things and yesterday it chuckled at the supposedly traditional gloom of an undertaking establishment when Ernest Frandsen claimed Elizabeth G. Edwards as his bride amid surroundings dedicated to the softening of grief instead of aiding and abetting Dan Cupid.

The wedding took place in the chapel of a funeral parlor at 2935 Telegraph avenue, with Elder E. A. Adams of the Seventh Day Adventist church as the officiating minister.

A group of close friends of the couple and business associates of the bridegroom were present.

"Unusual? Well, maybe," said Frandsen in explaining the choice of the wedding scene. "But you see I work here and it suggests no gloom for me. And it'll suggest even less now."

Frandsen's bride is the daughter of N. B. Edwards, 956 Ventura street. The romance is the outcome of an acquaintance of several years.

—Oakland Tribune, Oakland, California, July 2, 1926, page 1.

Note: According to Social Security Death Index, Elizabeth Frandsen was born Dec. 23, 1907 and died in June 1986. And Ernest W. Frandsen was born Sept. 2, 1907 and died August 24, 1994. The last residence for each was 95448 (Healdsburg, Sonoma, California.) So assuming they were married all that time, 1926-1986, just missed 60 years by a month or probably less.