Feb 17th
1944
Dear “Ollie”
Many thanks
for your letter read today. Also thank
you for your Christmas card & letter read here. OK!
We are glad
to read that everything your way is going along fine.
As for our
home, it has seen many changes since the last time you were at our home in
He likes it
very much but does find it a pretty tough grind. This is the base where most of the wash outs
occur so Ray says he is going around these days with his fingers crossed.
Leslie
joined the Army Air Corps and went into service on the [of] 22nd February
last year, just three weeks after Ray had left. He was sent to
Unfortunately
at
P.S. Leslie was in the service 7 months.
A few months before going into the
Army, Leslie got quietly married and is now the proud father of a very fine
daughter 7 months old who has just cut her first tooth.
And as for
Wilbur he was of for Army service late last year but was rejected because of a
hernia. So Wilbur felt bad as he was
anxious to go. Well he was operated on
last December and was released from hospital these days before Christmas. He is now well on his way to being O.K. again
and about July is going to try for the Marines.
Mother is still at Marshall Fields and is fine. I have quit the State Sr
Stones for almost 1 ½ years and am now in the defense work in a shop in Oak. Pk. I am back at my old line the electrical work
and am the electrician & maintenance man in a shop that has about 70
Electric Motors & plenty of machinery to be taken care of. Also we have a large garage on [the] 1st
floor that I also have to take care of
I like the
work immensely as it is forever changing. [There are] never two jobs alike.
As you can
see “Ollie” from the above there has been many changes
in our home. At this writing we are all
well & hope this finds you the same.
We will forward Ray’s membership card to him at our next writing. His present address is
an/c
Ray Gillinsfie U.S.N.R.
U.S.N.A.S. 1B-2-208
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As this about
covers all the news will now close as ever.
S. Gillesfie