February 20, 1969
Thursday, February 20, 1969
7PM
Dear Larry:
While I’m sitting around I thought I would write you a few lines to let you know we are thinking of you. Karl and Carol just came in from collecting. Karl is sitting here eating a bar of candy and Tresa has a bowl of ice cream and watching “Gilligan’s Island.” Carol is in the other room talking on the phone, while dad is in the kitchen getting caught up on some of his paper work and sorting things out.
February 18, 1969
Tuesday, February 18, 1969
10:30 P.M.
Dear Larry:
Just got home from Bingo and didn’t hit a thing (darn it). So I thought I would write you a few lines before I go to bed. Carol is rolling her hair and dad is sitting in his your favorite chair reading the paper and watching T.V.
Dad had to go to the doctor yesterday and went to the hospital today for an x-ray. He has pleurisy and it’s been bothering him all day today. Dr. Wilkinson gave him some pills to take so I hope they help him. He came home from work yesterday because he felt bad, so the doctor told him to take a couple of days off. So since this is his weekend off, he will be off all week to rest up. He said he is going to quit working at the club because it is getting to be too much for him.
February 18, 1969
Wednesday, Feb. 18, 1969
7:15 P.M.
Hi Larry,
How are you? Fine I hope. Today is Wednesday and I got ashes on my forehead this morning at the 8 o’clock mass before school started.
Mommy, Daddy, and Carol just left for the 7:30 mass tonight. I don’t think you have to go to church and get ashes, but Mommy and Daddy said that we really should.
February 16, 1969
Sunday 2130
2-16-69
Hi Larry,
Just sitting here watching the Smothers Brothers show and Liberace is playing the piano. Now there are 3 hippies making a lot of noise. Bonanza isn’t on tonight due to the Ice [Capades].
This has been a slow day. We woke up at 0900, went to mass at 1000, then to Pay Less and home at 1130. Carol came home from staying at Joanna’s all night. We had breakfast at 1230, bacon, sausage links, fried eggs, and chow chow. I took a three-hour nap this afternoon. We took a drive to Pendleton at 1800 and stopped at the new Burger Chef at Columbus and 67 and got home at 1900. Mother and the kids played some cards and I took a shave and bath. Tresa kept pestering me about bowling last night, but she got a touch of [pleurisy] and didn’t feel like it. Karl, Tresa, and I have been bowling now and then. Tresa gets around 40 and Karl gets around 90. Carol has been bowling with her Phys. Ed. class.
February 13, 1969
Thursday, February 13, 1969
9:30 P.M.
Dear Larry:
Thought I would write a few lines to you while I am sitting under the hair dryer. Aunt Mary came over this evening and gave me a permanent, which I needed very bad. Dad is asleep in the rocker. He was at the Club most of the day boozing up since it was his day off. He will probably sleep there all night. Tresa and Karl are both in bed, so Carol and I are the only ones stirring around.
February 10, 1969
February 10, 1969
Monday – 10 P.M.
Dear Larry:
I just got home from drivers training and thought I would write you a few lines to let you know that next Monday I will be starting to drive, that is, if I pass my beginners test. Dad is off Thursday so I am going to take my test then. I will let you know how I come out.
We received a letter from you today that was written the 4th of February. Larry, you asked us to send you a money order for $100. We would be gald to do it, but dad said you should have let us know sooner, because there is no way for you to get it by the 13th. I really have that, but today is the 10th and you know that it takes more than 3 or 4 days to get to you and you wouldn’t get it in enough time for your R&R. I sure hope that you have enough money on hand to take your R&R and I am not shook up because you asked for the money, because you should see the country while you’re there. I told Dad that maybe we should send it anyway and he said it’s no use to because it won’t get there in time.
February 7, 1969
February 7, 1969
Friday 12 Noon
Dear Larry:
I just got through washing clothes and right now I have the T.V. on watching my stories, so I thought I would write you a few lines to let you know we are all ok and hope you are the same.
I washed my hair and got it on rollers as tonight is my Bingo night.
Dad, Tresa, and I went to Karl’s last ballgame last night and they lost. They played Alexandria and those boys looked more like high schools boys compared to our boys. I think Karl plays pretty good ball if they played boys more like their own size.
He will rest a while, and I imagine he will be going in for track in the spring.
I suppose by now you are on your R+R or maybe getting read to leave. I saw in the paper the other day that they cancelled some leaves and I was wondering if maybe they cancelled yours.
February 4, 1969
Feb. 4, 1969
Tuesday – 9 P.M.
Dear Larry:
Well, here I am again with one of my boring letters to let you know we are all ok and hope you are the same.
I didn’t go to Bingo tonight as I had to study my driver’s manual to get my beginner’s license. I wasn’t going to write you anything about it and let it be a surprise to you when you got home, but I talked to Aunt Mary on the phone and she said that she wrote and told you that I am going to take driver’s training at Anderson High School. I finally decided to learn to drive after all these years.
“Their hair is as long as the girl’s especially when they are driving their car.”
Sunday, Feb. 2
Dear Larry:
I’ll bet you are thinking that I forgot about you, but I hadn’t. Called at Mother’s house and Tresa answered. She said Dad was getting supper and Mom was at St. Ambrose church doing some kind of work. I talked to Mother the first part of the week and she read your mail to me. We all worry over you and Mother feels so bad when she don’t hear from you. Tomorrow, Mother goes to start her driving lessons and she is really worried and afraid she can’t learn how to drive. After she learns, she will wonder how she got along without knowing how!
February 2, 1969
Feb. 2, 1969
Sunday 8 P.M.
Dear Larry:
Well, here it is Groundhog Day and as far as here in Anderson, he didn’t see his shadow, because it was cloudy here all day.
I just got home from St. Ambrose Hall, the teenagers had their monthly dinner tonight, so I had to help serve. They had steak sandwiches, potato salad, baked beans, and a relish dish and ice cream bars for dessert.
Last night, I went to Bingo and got home around midnight, and when I got in the house, I found a surprise. Tresa, Karl, and Dad bought bookshelves, it has 6 shelves in it. 1 – 12 inch, 2 – 10 inch, 3 – 8 inch shelves, and 36 inches wide. It looks real nice, so now we have a place for our new Encyclopedias and other books and what nots and trophies.
