"Woodrow
came out to spend the night with us; so after supper he brought his slide
projector into the frontroom to display some color pictures to the family. He
had some dandies. Of course, a large share were of Phillip and Carol playing in
swings, on the slippery slide, etc. A number were taken at our house--the
cutest were those taken at a birthday party Mother had when Phillip was
five. It wasn't difficult to see where his
chief interest in life was. Yet he has taken the loss remarkably well. After that we had a long talk -- mainly about
photography. Now it's bedtime."
--
Letter from my father, Bloomington, Kans., to my mother, Winfield, Kans., Monday,
July 7, 1947. Woodrow’s children, Phillip, 9, and Carol, 7, had been struck and
killed by an automobile while crossing the street in Wichita four days earlier
on July 3. The two children had stayed at my grandparents’ house for extended
periods, during times when their parents, Woodrow and Maryjane, were separated.
After the couple’s second and final divorce, Woodrow was awarded custody of the
children. They were killed while on a
visit with their mother.
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