Remembering Gene by his sister, Irma Stolt
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I was born July 30, 1917, the youngest of eight children. I was the only one born in a hospital and have the bill for
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Dear Cheryl & Family, We have had another good rain this weekend. We are still behind normal, but it does help a lot. I believe there is a
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Dear Jeff, I thought of you when I read the enclosed article about the fast food workers. You might want to try to get on with
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Dear Cheryl & Family: As I have said before Grandma and I lead such an exciting life that I have to write you about other things — I wouldn't want
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Dear Jeff, Happy birthday. However the amount of happiness you can get from $10 is quite limited. Put together with some other money,
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Dear Todd: I have meant to write you sooner but I was concerned about Jeff's ingrown toe nail and I wrote him about it and then I
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Dear Kids: When you are age 77 everyone under 50 is a kid and that includes your Mom and Dad.
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Dear Kids: We have had great excitement at our house. Grandma, Craig and I had Turkey dinners and all the fixings for both Thanksgiving
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Dear Kids: This is to tell you about the high finance I had to practice when I was a kid. I was 12 years old when the 1929 stock
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Dear kids: The subject of this letter is to tell you how we entertained ourselves in a town like Blunt where a great many of its
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Dear Jeff, Todd, Chris and Tawnya, (In case you aren't too bored with this stuff).
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Dear Kids: This letter is to tell you some things about my dad, your Mom's grandfather and your great-grandfather. He was a good
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Dear Todd: We have been hearing, from your mother about how great you are doing in school and we are proud and thrilled about it. I knew
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Dear Kids: One thing I have been trying to do is to give you some feeling of how different times were when I was a kid and to give you
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Dear Kids: Summer is just around the comer. We have been having the usual cloudy May weather and it has extended into June. I like the
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I started this letter a few days ago. Since then it has turned pretty hot — in the upper 90s. My back yard was getting burned
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Dear Kids: Here are some more recollections of some of the characters in and around Blunt. Since there was very little to do, visiting
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Dear Chris: Happy birthday! I hope this gets to you on time. I didn't know that the Postal Service was carrying the mail by mule train
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July 6, 1996. I guess I could entitle it: A COWARD DIES A THOUSAND DEATHS
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LEON DEWITT HOWARD was born November 6,1870, the son of James Durkee Howard and Phoebe Ferris Howard, in Henry County, near
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