Dress, 1942

Clothing/Dress/Costume

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Tontitown Historical Museum

Name/Title

Dress, 1942

Entry/Object ID

2024-4-1

Description

Wedding dress, worn by a WWII bride and then her daughter in the 60s.

Context

On the August 1942 wedding at St. Joseph's of Art and Frindy: "My grandfather [Arthur Paul Fiori] was already enlisted when he phoned my grandmother [Florinda Pauline Bariola] to ask her to meet him in Arkansas to get married. [M]y mom [Linda Fiori] would wear [this dress] when she married my dad [Ted Wood] 20 years later in 1965." -- story by Leeanna Hammer

Collection

OBJECTS

Category

dress
Main Garments, Clothing, 03: Personal Objects

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

St. Joseph's Parish, Tontitown, Arkansas

Person or Organization

Arthur Paul "Art" Fiori (1918 - 1994)

Person or Organization

Florinda "Frindy" Pauline Bariola (1916 - 1995)

Person or Organization

Linda Fiori Wood

Update Date

September 1, 2026