September 22, 1968
Sunday Nite
2100
9-22-68
Dear Larry,
Just got [through] taking a bath. Saved the water for you. (ha) Wish I could. Gave Karl a haircut earlier with the family kibitzing about me cutting his hair too short. Karl finally started crying. I finished him up with a nice job.
Woke up this morning at 0900. Picked Carol up at Kathy P—–’s house where they had a slumber party. Went to the 11:30 mass and Karl was a “cape” instead of a “sticky.” Dropped mother off at the Pay-Less after mass and then picked her up. Had breakfast at 1300, bacon, sausage and eggs. Had some of your favorite “green tomatoes” or Chow Chow as it is called. I didn’t think it was hot enough so I put in a couple hot peppers in it a couple days ago, and boy was it ever good. We’ve got plenty of red tomatoes nowadays.
September 14, 1968
Sept. 14, ’68
Larry,
Hi, how are ya? I’m sorry I haven’t written in years, but now that school has started, I haven’t had time to do anything but study. Haha. Every night when I get home from school, all I can do is do my homework, talk on the phone, wash my hair and roll it up and take a bath. By this time it’s 11:30 and I have to go to bed.
Our reserve football team at MHHS [Madison Heights High School] is pretty great this year, although we did get beat by AHS [Anderson High School] reserves. 7-0 was the score. At this game, one of our star players got a broken collar bone. They were really out to kill us.
We played Marion, the varsity, and I must admit, they creamed us. The score was 33-7. Marion has a rough team, but Anderson probably won’t beat them either. We play highland the 21st of Sept. and Anderson the 11th of Oct. We’ll beat ‘em though, you just wait.
August 29, 1968
August 29, 1968
Time – 8:30 AM Thurs.
Dear Larry:
We have WHUT on and he said that it is 58° degrees outside. It is ideal sleeping weather. Everyone is still asleep but Tresa and me. We are both sitting here in the kitchen writing to you. I didn’t get a chance to write yesterday because I was busy all day washing all my windows. I thought that I had better do it while I still have some help around the house because next week the kids will be going back to school.
When Dad got home from work he brought with him a big tub like the ones you kids used to fill up with water and take baths in outside when you were little. [an example of these tubs is pictured below] He also bought some onions and cabbage with the mangos and hot green peppers in the garden, we all got to work last night and cut them up in the tub. It’s been down in the basement all night, so tonight we will put them in jars. So when you get home next year you will have some green relish to eat with your sandwiches.
August 27, 1968
Monday Aug 26, 1968
5:30 P.M.
Dear Larry:
I was going to write to you yesterday but since Carol wrote to you, I thought I would take a rest. As you probably know and Carol wrote you, yesterday was her 15th birthday. Since it happened to come out on a Sunday, we had a pretty nice day. We started it off by going to the 10 o’clock mass which Karl had to serve. Then, after church I stopped at Pay Less and got a few groceries and when we got home we hurried and went to the Little League picnic which was at the Meadowbrook Park and Karl’s team got a trophy. I baked Carol a German chocolate cake. We had her birthday party when we got home from the picnic. Dad and I gave her $20.00 to buy her some school clothes. I suppose she probably told you that I got her a gift from you. The cake was good and there was only one big piece left over when we started to cut it. I said that if you were home the whole cake would be gone. Carol J—– and Barbara H—- helped eat it.
July 23, 1968
July 23, 1968
Tuesday
Larry,
Joanna and I got your letter today. Have you written to Thomas, Johnson, Aunt Mary or anyone like that? They’ll probably be expecting letters from you.
Yes, I’ve been working on my art. If I don’t, mother has a fit. I thought I’d send you a sample of what I’m doing. [see above]
Dad just left to pickup a bookcase we ordered at Sears. It’s another steel one and it looks like this: [see above] I guess about 5 or 6 ft. tall with adjustable shelves.
April 10, 1968
April 10, 1968
Wed. evening
Larry,
Hi! How are ya? Just got through painting 4 pictures of mother. I think it insulted her. Well, I better go.
Carol
Dear Larry:
I didn’t want to waste this space so I thought I would finish Carol’s long letter, I just can’t get those big cobelas Joanna and Carol to write to you. (Big cobela mother sure writes to you. – Carol)
Joanna is too damn busy running around and Carol is too busy enjoying her spring break and Dad is too busy going to the Polish Club or his church (as you would say) and Karl is too busy going to track practice at Madison Heights field, so I guess it is up to Mom to do the writing…and Tresa also, but sometimes she is too busy playing with Debbie. So now I am going to say what keeps you too busy?
March 3, 1968
Sunday
March 3, 1968
3 P.M.
Dear Larry:
I haven’t [written] to you in a few days, so I thought I had better write to let you know we didn’t forget you. Even though I don’t write every day, I still think about you and wonder how you are doing.
Well, Larry, Madison Heights got beat in the regional last night. It was an over time game and they got beat by Marion 52-51. I will have Karl cut this clipping out of the paper so you can read it yourself. I picked Marion in the guessing contest at Pay Less and for all 3 games the total was 379 and I picked 375. I sure was close but not close enough I guess because I didn’t hear anything. Some lady probably hit it right on the nose. I even got in a pool at the Club but I didn’t win that either.
February 24, 1968
Saturday
February 24, 1968
Larry,
I just got back from the sectional about an hour ago. It was so neat because Madison Heights won by 15 pts. over Highland. The score was 67 to 52. I felt sorry for Highland because they were doing so good until they met Madison in that final game. They played a cool game with Anderson and beat them in an overtime. Highland also beat Alexandria in a double overtime game. Both of them were barn burners, believe me!
It’s too bad Anderson had to get beat by Highland. HA HA. Well, I guess I won’t rub it in anymore than I already have.
February 20, 1968
Tuesday
February 20, 1968
4:45 P.M.
Dear Larry:
Just a few lines to let you know that I am thinking of you and hoping you are ok. Today we have some snow on the ground and the temperature is about 26° outside.
We had a[n] early supper tonight for Dad has to go to work at the Club. He traded his Wednesday night for tonight because he got sectional tickets and he is going to the game tomorrow night and taking Karl with him. Madison Heights is playing Frankton. We’ll let you know how the game turns out.
February 18, 1968
Sunday
February 18, 1968
3:30 P.M.
Dear Larry:
Here it is Sunday and a cold, sun shining day here. I was thinking that maybe you might call today since we didn’t here from you all week. Maybe after your basic training you may have more time to write to us. I sure hope so. I didn’t get to write to you yesterday . I kinda thought that dad would write to you, but he must have fallen asleep when I went to bingo. Dad and Karl went to the Anderson and Indianapolis Shortridge basketball game last night and Anderson won 63-60. Karl said they played Richmond Friday night and they won that game too. Karl said it was a close game but he didn’t know the score.
