Long Island Daily Press (Jamaica/Long Island, NY) published Jan. 20, 1942, page 6:
groom: Edward Gerard
bride: Margaret "Peg" Mantle
married: Mar. 13, 1942
"Margaret Burns Mantle to Wed Edward Gerard Jr. March 13 Margaret Burns Mantle, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Burns Mantle of 44 Seasongood road, Forest Hills, has set March 13 as the date for her wedding to Edward Gerard Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Gerard of 77-34 Austin street, Forest Hills. The ceremony will take place in St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Forest Hills, with the Rev. Thomas Blomquist officiating.
Mrs. duPont Snowden of Kew Gardens will be matron of honor....Corporal Thomas Locke will be best man ...
Miss Mantle is an alumna of Kew Forest School in Forest Hills, Wildcliff College, Swarthmore, Penn., and the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn.
Her fiance, an alumnus of Newtown High School, Elmhurst, attended Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Penn."