Elizabeth Leeds Barker

Bridgeport Telegram – Wednesday, September 12, 1923

Announcement of Elizabeth Leeds’ Engagement Made At the fall meeting of the Service club held in Lordship yesterday afternoon at the summer home of Miss Elizabeth Fuller Leeds, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Leeds of Mill Hill avenue Miss Leeds announced her engagement to George Myron Barker of 128 Coleman Street.

Both young people are extremely popular, and the engagement is a pleasurable one to their large circle of friends. Miss Leeds, who is president of the Service club, attended the Miss Walker’s School, Simsbury, Connecticut, and L’Hermitage school, Versailles, France at which she was a student last winter.

Mr. Barker is a graduate of Hotchkiss school, Lakeville and of Yale University, class 1921. At present he is connected with the Bridgeport Trust company. Following the club meeting, tea was served. The guest were: Miss Phyllis Kumler, of Dayton, Ohio, Miss Elizabeth Barber, of Mauch Chunk, PA, Mrs. Otto Hafner, of Norotor, Mrs Ralph Barker, Mrs. Hubert Morfey, Mrs. G. Sherman Hafner, Mrs. Philo C. Calhoun, Mrs. Robert Weed, Miss Harriett Windsor, Miss Sally Lavery.