February 25, 1969
Tuesday, February 25, 1969
Time 8:30 night
Hi Larry,
How are you? Fine, I hope. Karl is watching Julia. Gosh! There’s been a lot of new shows that came on since you were gone. There’s Julia, Here Come the Brides, there’s a lot of others but I can’t think of them now. Most of them are good.
Daddy went bowling. Mommy went to bingo, and Carol went to the pep club. That’s something like a cheerleader. The only basketball game that we went to was Madison vs. Anderson. Daddy said, then we could see Anderson, and Madison. Madison Heights didn’t win though.
February 24, 1969
Monday, February 24, 1969
7:00 P.M.
Dear Larry:
I got home about a half hour ago from my driver’s training, so I though I would write you a few lines. We drove around the parking lot across the street from the High School Gym. I need a lot of practice on my turns, so I will have to have Dad take me out to practice. Mr. Carter said that next week we will go out on the road, so keep your fingers crossed.
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 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.
January 28, 1969
January 28, 1969
Tuesday – 11 P.M.
Dear Larry:
It’s kind of late to be writing a letter, but I thought I would write anyway. I came home from Bingo and Carol was watching The Miracle Worker on TV, so I watched it also and it was very good. I won $7.50 at Bingo tonight. At least I got my money back.
Larry, we finally got a letter from you today, and as you know, we were all very glad to hear from you. I was really surprised to hear you got transferred to an Infantry Unit. Are you still in the Artillery part of that division? What kind of job are you supposed to be doing now that they changed you?
January 25, 1969
January 25, 1969
Dear Larry:
Well, here I am again and I don’t know if I should even be writing to you as I don’t even know if you are getting my mail or not. I just cannot believe that we haven’t heard from you in so long. The last letter you wrote to us was dated the 29th of December. I don’t want you to think that I am giving you the devil, because I am only a concerned parent, and I sure would be a heck of a parent if I didn’t care. I know that you probably get tired of writing everyday, but heavens, I think that at least we could hear from you more often than we do. I have a lot of people ask about you and I don’t know what to tell them since we don’t get mail. I can’t even get Dad to write. He said that he doesn’t hear from you, so why should he write. I just can’t be that way. I feel like I want to write to you whether you write or not. Like I said, I would be a heck of a mother if I didn’t care, and I will keep on writing to you and just hope that we get a letter soon. Everyday I keep hoping. I know that you probably think that I am giving you the devil, but I don’t want you to think that because all I ever look forward to is to see you get home and away from Vietnam.
