May 24, 2018 Update from the Original post: Had a great conversation earlier this evening with 92-year-old John Havens from Vilas who now lives in Kansas. He preached the funeral for my brother 52 years ago, which I did not know. He also did the funeral for Fred Hollister which …
The Springfield Herald had a regular series in either 1918 or 1919 called “Persons, Stories, and Incidents of Old Boston and the Old Days.” I am a bit confuse on the year because several of the issues have the year 1918 marked out in pencil with 1919 written in. This …
As I move many of my dad’s Navy letters to a digital format I will occasionally provide samples as shown below. I picked this one simply because it was from the set of letters from 1942 which I thought was lost. Also most of the language from the letter is original. …