Millersburg Couple Announce Marriage After Five Years
Millersburg, January 25 [1936] — Married incognito for five years, the former Miss Kathryn M. Snyder, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Addison L. Snyder, of Dalmatia, R.D., is the bride of Marion U. Gilbert, son of Herbert S. Gilbert and the late of Nan [Ulrich] Gilbert, and widely known pilot in this vicinity.
The announcement has been made after five years by the bride’s parents who revealed that the pair flew to Logan Field, near Sparrow’s Point, Maryland, where they boarded a train for Baltimore, August 26, 1930.
The Rev. Mr. Wallace, of Baltimore, performed the ceremony after which Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert flew to Washington.
Mrs. Gilbert is a graduate of the Millersburg High School, class of 1927. She completed a four-year course in music supervision at the West Chester State Teachers College and for two years taught in the public schools at Littlestown. She is a well known soloist and has been director of the choir of the St. Paul’s Lutheran Church.
Mr. Gilbert also was graduated in 1927 from the Millersburg High School and attended the Bliss Electrical School, Tacoma Park, Maryland. His incentive to follow aviation came with frequent visits to the air depot near Washington, and he then took flying lessons from C. W. Hunter, of Millersburg, then operating at Amity Hall, where he made his first solo flight.
He secured his pilot’s license and after purchasing his own plane, he became manager of Robinson’s Field, Millersburg Airport, in an elaborate ceremony. The following month the flying sweethearts hopped to Baltimore, were married and started on an aerial honeymoon.
After three years Robinson Field was discontinued and Pilot Gilbert taught student flyers at Pat Brooke‘s Penn-Harris Airport, Harrisburg, and air commerce regulations and air navigation in the Eastern School of Aviation, Harrisburg. He also operated an air express between Harrisburg and Pittsburgh.
The past year he conducted a grocery store on Union Street, and last summer taught student pilots at the Sunbury Municipal Airport, of which John Abuiso is manager. Recently Mr. Gilbert discontinued the store business and at present is a salesman for the Market Square Auto Company, of this place.
Mr. Gilbert has more than 996 flying hours to his credit and retains his pilot’s license. He expected to resume teaching student flyers at the Sunbury Airport, over week-ends, next summer.
Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert are residing at the former home of Mr. Gilbert’s late grandfather, Dr. Marion Ulrich, on Center Street.
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From the Harrisburg Sunday Courier, 19 January 1936, via Newspapers.com.
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