"HE HAD BEEN GIVEN UP BY DOCTORS ON 3 OCCASIONS"

COUPLE WED VIA LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE

Fort Worth, Texas (JFK+50) At 10:15 local time May 3, 1923, Miss Helen L. Satterwhyte of Fort Worth and Mr. Horace W. Keller of Bremerton, Washington* "were married by long distance telephone."

The couple were united in matrimony via extension telephone connection between their respective locations in Fort Worth and Bremerton.  Justice Hal P. Hughes (Texas) and James W. Carr (Washington) officiated.

Bremerton Telephone Company manager C.R. Wood arranged the ceremony.  Mr. Keller was indeed fortunate to be alive to be wed because as a sailor in WWI he had been "given up by doctors on three occasions."

The Seattle Star reports that he convalescing with "his recovery...now assured."

*Bremerton, Kitsap County, Washington State, is the largest city on the Kitsap Peninsula & is located directly west of Seattle.  It is the home of Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Naval Base, and Olympic & Everest Colleges.

SOURCE

"Couple Is Wed By Telephone," The Seattle Star, May 3, 1923, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/

 

 

Local & Long Distance Telephone Plaque

Museum of Business History & Technology

Photo by Marcin Wichary (2016)