August 9, 1970, Page 56Buy Reprints
NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y., Aug. 8—Mayor Stanley W. Church and Mrs. Rita Diehl Bobbing, widow of Ernest J. Bobbing, a developer of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., were mar ried here this afternoon in the Christ United Methodist Church. The Rev. Arthur G. Bareon officiated.
Mrs. Robert L. Tegtman was her mother's matron of honor, and Mr. Church Jr. was his father's best man.
The bride is the daughter of Mrs. Margaret Markes of Fort Lauderdale and the late Charles Diehl of Philadelphia. Mr. Church, whose two pre vious marriages ended in divorce, is the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. William E. Church of New Rochelle. His father was in the import export business in New York.
The couple got to know each other in Fort Lauderdale, where the bridegroom had made his home for the last two years. But Mr. Church said he kept a legal residence in New Rochelle, a circum stance that proved useful this year when the City Council got into what he called “a jam.”
Mr. Church, a Democrat in a Republican stronghold, served five four‐year terms as New Rochelle's Mayor from 1940 through 1963, and was called out of retirement in May to serve out an un expired term.
A former president of the New York State Association of Public Officials, Mr. Church served 12 years on the ex ecutive committee of the United States Conference of Mayors. For the last several years he has been executive vice president of the Sydney Baron Public Relations Cor poration in New York.
After a brief wedding trip to Block Island, R. I. the couple will return here, where Mr. Church will remain as Mayor until the end of the year. They will then take up residence at the bride's home in Fort Lauderdale.