"...We
were over at Katherine's for dinner to-day.
Papa, Mamma, and Robert rode over with us. Flo and Everett and Lois were there too. We had a lovely dinner. Lois Arlene and Billy are just announcing
that they were married last Feb. 7th.
Guess Flo was the only one who knew it.
Lois intends to finish school this year.
LaVerne cried when she found it out...."
--Letter from my grandmother, Bloomington, Kans., to my father, Winfield, Kans., Sunday, November 8, 1942. Katherine, Robert, and
Flo were my grandmother’s siblings. Lois
Arlene and LaVerne were the children of Flo and her husband Everett. I'm not sure why Lois and Billy waited nine
months to announce their marriage. The
wedding took place two months after the U.S. went to war and was part of a
nationwide surge in marriages in the early months of the war (on marriage rates
in World War II, see my earlier post “July 15, 1942: married”).
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