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Show BRIDAL GOWN HER SHROUD. Bridesmaids Wore Clothes at Funernl Intended for Wedding. NEW YORK, Nov. 22. Her health broken by the work of preparing the trousseau for her wedding, which was to have taken place last Sunday. Miss Mary Nyerges of No. 77 East Twenty-third Twenty-third street, Bayonne. N. J., fell an easy victim to pneumonia, -dying on the eve of her wedding. Her funeral took place Sunday from St. Joseph's Catholic Catho-lic church In that city. In which she was to have been married. Joseph Pope of Brooklyn, her prospective pros-pective husband, was constantly with the girl during her Illness, and she died In his arms a few minutes after she had asked that a priest be sent for that she might be married on her deathbed. The bridal gown which she had fashioned fash-ioned with her own hands was used for the shroud, and the wedding veil and white slippers were used, while a wreath of orange blossoms was placed In her hand, which bore the wedding ring which Mr. Pope had procured. A pair of white horses yesterday bore the hearse containing the young woman In her bridal shroud to St. Joseph's church Six girl friends In white and six young men were the pallbearers. 1 The girls, who were to have been Miss Nyerges' bridesmaids, wore the clothes they would hae used at the wedding. |