William and Carrie Raschka's eldest daughter, Daisy, was the first of their children to leave home for good. In 1916 she married John Fleck of Hobart. The wedding took place in the Raschkas' home on the evening of Tuesday, November 14.
John's sister played the wedding march from Lohengrin; his brother was best man. Lesta Raschka came home from Fort Wayne to serve as Daisy's bridesmaid. In a parlor decorated in pink and white for the occasion, the young couple said their vows and exchanged rings beneath a large model of a wedding bell.
An intimate dinner followed, with only immediate relatives (even so, 22 covers were laid). Afterward the newlyweds left for a short honeymoon in Chicago. They would return in a few days to take up residence in the Abel bungalow in Joryville, he to resume his work as an electrician in a Gary steel mill, she to run the household, and of an evening, I suppose, to play on the piano that her parents had given them as a wedding present.
Lesta returned to Fort Wayne to continue her medical treatment. She would not be back again until the Christmas holidays.
Sources:
♦ "Fleck-Raschka." Hobart News 16 Nov. 1916.
♦ "Personal and Local Mention." Hobart News 16 Nov. 1916; 28 Dec. 1916.
♦ "Quietly Married." Hobart Gazette 17 Nov. 1916.
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