Akron, Ohio

September 12, 1945

Hello Honey!

I received your nice letter. I guess you are tired working so hard. Well we really did get a good rain. It is so cool this evening. I am sitting in the sunroom writing this letter. I just had the walls painted an April green. It is so cheerful because the sun shines in it a lot. I have wicker furniture and it is painted yellow, trimmed in black. Don’t you think the colors are nice? Evelyn I received Jack’s box, of course, he didn’t have a lot at Saipan. They were not allowed to take much over but he had a memory album [and] he kept different clippings from newspapers and such. He had your picture with him and a small snap one you sent him where you were holding a white cat and he had a nice picture of his basketball team. Jack looks swell. He had his money belt and his Red Cross kit. He had one ribbon with three stars and one with two stars and he had his two bath towels and some foreign money. When I get to feeling better I am going to send you something from that box for remembrance. They told me I could have Jack brought home in eight months. Evelyn, when I do I am having a military funeral for him and I want you to come. I will let you know and we will see that you get home. Don’t pay any attention on what the gossip is about Jack. He never was engaged to no other girl in Ashland. I know Jack had a lot of friends but maybe they like to talk. Now I know what Jack told me. So, Mrs. N. can talk if she wants to but it is not true. I just wish Jack would of wrote what he wanted to tell you. I know how much different things would be, but Evelyn down in your heart, and some day I will get that letter out. I just don’t like to go near his clothes because I cry too hard. I suppose your Mother has a lot canned. I am not canning much. Mr. D is going to start and work six hours a day and he is glad. Mary has been working steady. She works in M. O’Neill’s store. People seem to buy a lot of blankets spreads and sheets. Jimmy is back in school. Dick is the youngest boy in the family and he is the most loving. I think a lot of him. Everything is slow in Akron. They have layed off a lot of people. Well it is bedtime so I will say Good Night and will write soon.

Love,

Mrs. D