April 17, 1969
Thursday, April 17, 1969
7:30 P.M.
Dear Larry:
Just got through writing a few bills, so I thought I would write you a few lines also and let you know we are all ok and hope you are the same.
Johnnie Johnson came over for a while this evening. I thought he came over to work out, but he just wanted to know if we heard from you, so I let him read the letter we got from you the other day. He said he has been playing golf to keep in shape. He said he hasn’t heard from Larry Thomas for a month.
“Maybe they don’t know what fish are.” – April 14, 1969
Dear Larry:
You may have thought that I have forgotten about you, but there isn’t much to write about. Everything is about the same here in Anderson. Everyone is looking for spring weather. The trees are beginning to green up and the rain we will be getting this evening will help.
April 13, 1969
Sunday, April 13, 1969
3:30 P.M.
Dear Larry:
Well, here it is Sunday afternoon and a beautiful day here in Anderson. The temperature is 74 degrees. Dad went to a meeting at the club. I forgot all about the meeting, so at the last minute, Dad asked me if I was going to go, and by then, it was too late, so I decided not to go. Dad had the weekend off this week, so he worked out on the yard. Karl and Dad also mowed the grass for the first time. Everything is really budding outside. The trees will have leaves on them before long.
March 30, 1969
Sunday, March 30, 1969
6:30 P.M.
Dear Larry:
Well, here it is Sunday evening. Dad, Tresa, Karl and I were watching T.V. about Eisenhower. As you probably heard, he died, and that’s all that will be on T.V. until he is buried.
Carol went to Indianapolis with a CYO group to see Funny Girl. She took Vicki Lanane with her as her guest. Joanna called and said she had a date last night and she [saw] that show and it was a good show.
March 26, 1969
March 26, 1969
Wednesday 1:10 P.M.
Dear Larry:
Here is your faithful mother again with a few lines to let you know we are thinking of you. Everyone here is ok. Tresa and Karl are out of school at noon today and also tomorrow because of Parent-Teacher Conferences. I baked three cherry pies so they had soup and pie for lunch. Debby is here also. Sara was in a car wreck not too long ago and had her front teeth loosened, so she is in the hospital having them pulled and is going to get false teeth.
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.
