Helen Dodson Hobbs, daughter of G. Dever Hobbs of Los Angeles, and Mrs. Dodson Hobbs of Wilmington, Del., was married yesterday to Sumner Thomas McKnight 2d, son of June H. McKnight of Monkton, Md., and the late Henry T. McKnight of Great Falls, Va., and Wayzata, Minn. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Mark Harris at the Christ Episcopal Church, Christiana Hundred, in Greenville, Del.

The bride is a senior at California State University. Her father, who is retired, was marketing director of the Celanese Corporation in Mexico.

Mr. McKnight is a vice president of the Sumner T. McKnight Foundation in Minneapolis, a private charitable foundation. He was graduated from the Fountain Valley School in Colorado Springs, attended Boston and American Universities and served with the Peace Corps in India. His father, a former Republican State Senator in Minnesota, was president of the McKnight Company, a holding company for the McKnight family investment interests, and the Jonathan Corporation, a land-development organization, both in Minneapolis.

The bridegroom is a grandson of John Wesley Hanes of New York and Thomasville, Ga., who is a director of the Olin Corporation and was Under Secretary of the Treasury during President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Administration.

The strikingly pretty, Helen passed at the all too young age of 41 in 1999, my last year at the Richmond track, where she often came down to our events, especially the truck races featuring many of her old west coast friends, competitors and officials.

Helen is buried just down the road from Easton.