Garage Sale Treasure
Published 3:15 pm Monday, July 9, 2018
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Wedding invitation is a mystery
Andrea Reibold holds the keepsake wedding invitation painting she bought at a garage sale for 50 cents. The invitation announces a wedding ceremony at Calcasieu Tabernacle on Christmas Day 1945, and Reibold hopes to locate the family it belongs to.
On the back of a 1945 framed wedding invitation is an inscription with “Jillian Johnson, pastel artist” and the Lake Charles address 816 10th St. The inscription: “This is to be a keepsake. Growing more dear, more precious more cherished year after year.”
Karen Sterling, left, receives a keepsake painting from the wedding of her parents in 1945 after Leesville resident Andrea Reibold, right, discovered the item in a garage sale. Sterling said that before Reibold’s discovery, her family had no idea the keepsake existed.
Ottis Thompson and Frances Janice Lancaster were married on Christmas Day 1945 in Lake Charles. A keepsake replicating the couple’s wedding invitation recently made its way into the hands of the couple’s only child after Leesville resident Andrea Reibold found the item in a garage sale.
