Hollywood, March 9 — (AP) Pfc. Richard (Red) Skelton, radio comedian who almost got married a year ago, made it today with 23-year-old Georgia Maureen Davis former photographer’s model from Casper, Wyo. as his bride.
(Associated Press Hollywood Writer James Bacon is a long-time friend of Red and Georgia Skelton. He was with them Saturday night in their Bel-Air home when they returned from UCLA Medical Center, less than one hour after their son, Richard, lost his valiant fight with leukemiaemia.)
[Originally published in the Daytona Beach Morning Journal – Feb 13, 1945]
Richmond, Va. Feb. 12 – (AP) – Pvt. Richard “Red” Skelton, the radio comedian and motion picture actor, said here today that he and Miss Georgia Davis, of Kalispell, Mont. would be married soon, if he is in the country long enough to permit it.