31 Mar March 31, 1944
Posted at 18:03h
in Letters
Letter from: Alice Shonkwiler to: Pvt George W. Shonkwiler March 31st, 1944 Friday 1:30 P.M. Noteworthy: Mom talks about her loneliness.
Dear Daddy,
Rec’d your letter today, written on Tuesday, and as you suggested, I made reservations for Friday morning (April 21st) and will be in St. Augustine April 22nd (Saturday) 9:46 A.M. Sure wish you could be there to meet me, but I s’pose there will be no such luck. I’m coming on the Dixie Flagler on the C. E. and I Railroad. Please let me know [at] what hotel etc. you’ve made reservations as I will be very tired and so will Ronnie, so would like to go to bed right away, so I can stay up late. Ronnie will probably have to stay up late too, as he won’t have anyone to care for him. I’d like to visit Silver Springs while I’m there. Suppose we can manage it? They say it is a beautiful place to see. Don’t go there until I come, so we can see it together.
page 2 If weather permits (we had a blizzard yesterday - snow a foot deep) I’d like to go to Rockford the latter part of next week and stay over Easter Sunday. Otherwise it will be a lonesome weekend as Eleanor is going home and I think the Pages will be gone. I don’t think I could stand it on Easter. I remember last Easter the beautiful plant you sent me and our going to church etc., and probably have the blues and cry all day. It isn’t so bad when other people are around, it seems. I would see Elsie from Beloit probably[,] and as her husband, Joe, is in the Navy, we can sympathize with one another.
Well, Darling, bye, now, and be a good boy, and we’ll see you soon. Only three more weeks now.
Ronnie is at the window showing Teddy Bear the "choo-choos", he’s so sweet! I’m going to get him a haircut next week.
Bye, all our love, mom and Ronnie.
P.S. Dr. Rathburn is calling me back at 5:30 tonight as it seems they can’t locate your history chart until then. We’ll write you soon as I hear. Love, Mom
P.P.S. I’m enclosing some two-cent stamps, so you won’t have to use 26-cent stamps on my letters. Put one six-cent airmail and one of these two-cent stamps on and that’s all you need, or if you are using airmail envelopes, use only [one] two-cent stamp.
