Elizabeth Altman of Johnsonville (Beth as she is affectionately called) was honored on her 90th birthday when her family entertained with a delightful reception on Saturday, June 11, between the appointed hours of two and four in the afternoon. She received her guests in a floral street length dress and wore a white wrist corsage.
The Family Life Center of the Johnsonville Pentecostal Holiness Church, where she is a long time member, took on the theme of an outdoor garden with specimen ferns placed strategically around the circumference on large white Venetian columns. The register table held a framed party invitation on an easel, a family portrait and a basket arrangement of white lilies and greens.
The elongated refreshment table was draped with white Venetian lace covers overlaid with white linens. It was centered with an arrangement of mixed white flowers, greenery and baby’s breath in a tall cut glass urn resting in a nest of green tulle. At each end was a hurricane lamp with a large lighted light green pillow candle. The dessert table was dressed in like manner and both held an assortment of wonderful party delicacies and iced beverages.
The cake table held the three-tiered confection frosted in while, each tier resting on the other. It was embellished with intricate designs of frosting and studded with pearls. Each tier was encircled at the base with a band of green ribbon. A nosegay of fresh garden flowers rested at the pinnacle. The cake was nestled in a bed of green tulle caught at intervals with sprigs of greens.
Guests were seated at round tables covered in white linen and the white chair shawls were wrapped with ribbons of green tulle and tied in back with a bow. Each table held a hurricane shade filled with a lighted candle and surrounded with green tulle.
The garden setting was reminiscent the old time flower garden of her maternal grandmother, Mary Molly Powell.
She is the oldest of seven children born to the late George and Jessie Powell Dennis. Her siblings include Everett and Malvin Dennis, both of Lake City; Meredith Hooks and Mavis Moore, both of Johnsonville, and the late J. C. Dennis and Linda Jean Dennis.
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