Marie's grave was reinterred from Calvary to All Saints, on 11 Oct 1932, soon after her husband's death.
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from The Inter Ocean; Chicago, Illinois; 7 Jan 1897, p7:
**Romance In Oak Park -- Antoine Bedard and Marie Letitia Coffey Elope. -- Fly to Kenosha, Wis. -- Through the Aid of a Minister Are United for Life. -- Are Now at a South Side Hotel, Joyfully Awaiting Parental Forgiveness**
Oak Park has had another elopement, although this one was not accompanied by the dramatic events which are supposed to be a part of a runaway marriage.
The elopers are well-known young persons, prominent in Oak Park society, and equally well known in the city. The young man is Antoine Bedard and his wife was, until Monday evening, Miss Marie Letitia Coffey.
Young Bedard is an attorney with offices in the Ashland block and has lived in Oak Park all his life. A considerable portion of the young woman's life has been spent in the same suburb, and for the three years during which they have known each other it has been generally understood, so it is said, that they would in time be married.
Parental objections on the part of Colonel J. B. Coffey, the father of the young woman, prevented, so the story goes, an immediate wedding but as his objection was more in the form of a wish that the wedding might be postponed until the young man rose higher in his profession, the lovers thought it would be all right to get married and trust to fortune for forgiveness.
Monday afternoon Miss Coffey came to the city and spent most of the afternoon in her fiance's office. Late in the afternoon they went to Kenosha and that same afternoon were married by the rector of the Episcopal Church there. The newly married pair returned to Chicago, going at once to the Columbia Hotel, at Thirty-First and State streets, where apartments had been engaged. Here they are spending their honeymoon and waiting until Colonel Coffey returns from a business trip to find out whether the expected blessing is forthcoming.
Bedard is the son of the president of the Bedard-Morency Lumber Company in Oak Park and has lived with his parents at East avenue and Lake street. He has been practicing law for several years and is about 28 years old. At present Mr. Bedard is mentioned frequently as a possible appointee to the position of an Assistant Attorney General for the state.
His wife is several years his junior and is the daughter of Colonel J. B. Coffey, at one time the editor of an Irish-American paper in Chicago, but now a railroad contractor. She has lived with her father at No. 127 Scoville avenue.
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from the Chicago Tribune; Chicago, Illinois; 4 Oct 1929 p44:
Marie Letitia Bedard, nee Coffey, 1345 North Shore-av., beloved wife of Antoine J., fond mother of Antoine William, dear sister of the late William P., Robert E., Katherine J., and Daniel A. Coffey. Funeral Saturday, Oct. 5, 8:45 a. m., from residence of her brother, Daniel A. Coffey, 555 Everett av., to St. Ignatius church, where solemn requiem high mass will be celebrated at 10 a. m. Interment Calvary.
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from The Inter Ocean; Chicago, Illinois; 7 Jan 1897, p7:
**Romance In Oak Park -- Antoine Bedard and Marie Letitia Coffey Elope. -- Fly to Kenosha, Wis. -- Through the Aid of a Minister Are United for Life. -- Are Now at a South Side Hotel, Joyfully Awaiting Parental Forgiveness**
Oak Park has had another elopement, although this one was not accompanied by the dramatic events which are supposed to be a part of a runaway marriage.
The elopers are well-known young persons, prominent in Oak Park society, and equally well known in the city. The young man is Antoine Bedard and his wife was, until Monday evening, Miss Marie Letitia Coffey.
Young Bedard is an attorney with offices in the Ashland block and has lived in Oak Park all his life. A considerable portion of the young woman's life has been spent in the same suburb, and for the three years during which they have known each other it has been generally understood, so it is said, that they would in time be married.
Parental objections on the part of Colonel J. B. Coffey, the father of the young woman, prevented, so the story goes, an immediate wedding but as his objection was more in the form of a wish that the wedding might be postponed until the young man rose higher in his profession, the lovers thought it would be all right to get married and trust to fortune for forgiveness.
Monday afternoon Miss Coffey came to the city and spent most of the afternoon in her fiance's office. Late in the afternoon they went to Kenosha and that same afternoon were married by the rector of the Episcopal Church there. The newly married pair returned to Chicago, going at once to the Columbia Hotel, at Thirty-First and State streets, where apartments had been engaged. Here they are spending their honeymoon and waiting until Colonel Coffey returns from a business trip to find out whether the expected blessing is forthcoming.
Bedard is the son of the president of the Bedard-Morency Lumber Company in Oak Park and has lived with his parents at East avenue and Lake street. He has been practicing law for several years and is about 28 years old. At present Mr. Bedard is mentioned frequently as a possible appointee to the position of an Assistant Attorney General for the state.
His wife is several years his junior and is the daughter of Colonel J. B. Coffey, at one time the editor of an Irish-American paper in Chicago, but now a railroad contractor. She has lived with her father at No. 127 Scoville avenue.
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from the Chicago Tribune; Chicago, Illinois; 4 Oct 1929 p44:
Marie Letitia Bedard, nee Coffey, 1345 North Shore-av., beloved wife of Antoine J., fond mother of Antoine William, dear sister of the late William P., Robert E., Katherine J., and Daniel A. Coffey. Funeral Saturday, Oct. 5, 8:45 a. m., from residence of her brother, Daniel A. Coffey, 555 Everett av., to St. Ignatius church, where solemn requiem high mass will be celebrated at 10 a. m. Interment Calvary.
Marie's grave was reinterred from Calvary to All Saints, on 11 Oct 1932, soon after her husband's death.
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from The Inter Ocean; Chicago, Illinois; 7 Jan 1897, p7:
**Romance In Oak Park -- Antoine Bedard and Marie Letitia Coffey Elope. -- Fly to Kenosha, Wis. -- Through the Aid of a Minister Are United for Life. -- Are Now at a South Side Hotel, Joyfully Awaiting Parental Forgiveness**
Oak Park has had another elopement, although this one was not accompanied by the dramatic events which are supposed to be a part of a runaway marriage.
The elopers are well-known young persons, prominent in Oak Park society, and equally well known in the city. The young man is Antoine Bedard and his wife was, until Monday evening, Miss Marie Letitia Coffey.
Young Bedard is an attorney with offices in the Ashland block and has lived in Oak Park all his life. A considerable portion of the young woman's life has been spent in the same suburb, and for the three years during which they have known each other it has been generally understood, so it is said, that they would in time be married.
Parental objections on the part of Colonel J. B. Coffey, the father of the young woman, prevented, so the story goes, an immediate wedding but as his objection was more in the form of a wish that the wedding might be postponed until the young man rose higher in his profession, the lovers thought it would be all right to get married and trust to fortune for forgiveness.
Monday afternoon Miss Coffey came to the city and spent most of the afternoon in her fiance's office. Late in the afternoon they went to Kenosha and that same afternoon were married by the rector of the Episcopal Church there. The newly married pair returned to Chicago, going at once to the Columbia Hotel, at Thirty-First and State streets, where apartments had been engaged. Here they are spending their honeymoon and waiting until Colonel Coffey returns from a business trip to find out whether the expected blessing is forthcoming.
Bedard is the son of the president of the Bedard-Morency Lumber Company in Oak Park and has lived with his parents at East avenue and Lake street. He has been practicing law for several years and is about 28 years old. At present Mr. Bedard is mentioned frequently as a possible appointee to the position of an Assistant Attorney General for the state.
His wife is several years his junior and is the daughter of Colonel J. B. Coffey, at one time the editor of an Irish-American paper in Chicago, but now a railroad contractor. She has lived with her father at No. 127 Scoville avenue.
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from the Chicago Tribune; Chicago, Illinois; 4 Oct 1929 p44:
Marie Letitia Bedard, nee Coffey, 1345 North Shore-av., beloved wife of Antoine J., fond mother of Antoine William, dear sister of the late William P., Robert E., Katherine J., and Daniel A. Coffey. Funeral Saturday, Oct. 5, 8:45 a. m., from residence of her brother, Daniel A. Coffey, 555 Everett av., to St. Ignatius church, where solemn requiem high mass will be celebrated at 10 a. m. Interment Calvary.
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from The Inter Ocean; Chicago, Illinois; 7 Jan 1897, p7:
**Romance In Oak Park -- Antoine Bedard and Marie Letitia Coffey Elope. -- Fly to Kenosha, Wis. -- Through the Aid of a Minister Are United for Life. -- Are Now at a South Side Hotel, Joyfully Awaiting Parental Forgiveness**
Oak Park has had another elopement, although this one was not accompanied by the dramatic events which are supposed to be a part of a runaway marriage.
The elopers are well-known young persons, prominent in Oak Park society, and equally well known in the city. The young man is Antoine Bedard and his wife was, until Monday evening, Miss Marie Letitia Coffey.
Young Bedard is an attorney with offices in the Ashland block and has lived in Oak Park all his life. A considerable portion of the young woman's life has been spent in the same suburb, and for the three years during which they have known each other it has been generally understood, so it is said, that they would in time be married.
Parental objections on the part of Colonel J. B. Coffey, the father of the young woman, prevented, so the story goes, an immediate wedding but as his objection was more in the form of a wish that the wedding might be postponed until the young man rose higher in his profession, the lovers thought it would be all right to get married and trust to fortune for forgiveness.
Monday afternoon Miss Coffey came to the city and spent most of the afternoon in her fiance's office. Late in the afternoon they went to Kenosha and that same afternoon were married by the rector of the Episcopal Church there. The newly married pair returned to Chicago, going at once to the Columbia Hotel, at Thirty-First and State streets, where apartments had been engaged. Here they are spending their honeymoon and waiting until Colonel Coffey returns from a business trip to find out whether the expected blessing is forthcoming.
Bedard is the son of the president of the Bedard-Morency Lumber Company in Oak Park and has lived with his parents at East avenue and Lake street. He has been practicing law for several years and is about 28 years old. At present Mr. Bedard is mentioned frequently as a possible appointee to the position of an Assistant Attorney General for the state.
His wife is several years his junior and is the daughter of Colonel J. B. Coffey, at one time the editor of an Irish-American paper in Chicago, but now a railroad contractor. She has lived with her father at No. 127 Scoville avenue.
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from the Chicago Tribune; Chicago, Illinois; 4 Oct 1929 p44:
Marie Letitia Bedard, nee Coffey, 1345 North Shore-av., beloved wife of Antoine J., fond mother of Antoine William, dear sister of the late William P., Robert E., Katherine J., and Daniel A. Coffey. Funeral Saturday, Oct. 5, 8:45 a. m., from residence of her brother, Daniel A. Coffey, 555 Everett av., to St. Ignatius church, where solemn requiem high mass will be celebrated at 10 a. m. Interment Calvary.
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