04 Mar March 4, 1945

V-mail
from: Mrs. G. Shonkwiler
to: Pvt George W. Shonkwiler
Mar. 4, 1945
9:45 P.M.
Sunday Eve.

Dearest,

While at this church tea I met Mr. and Mrs. Brady and a hundred other people,
also a Mr. Rogers who was your Commerce Prof. at Indiana.  He said he
remembered you and Forrest and asked where you were, etc.  I also met his wife
and daughter.  Edith is practically forcing Ronnie and I to attend S.S. and
church with them, as she even told the kindergarten S.S. teacher that she’d be
teaching Ronnie at Sunday school from now on.  I know you don’t want me or
Ronnie to join their church, but, what can I do without being rude?  I’ve
alibied ever since you left.  I guess I’ll just tell them that I want to go to
a Lutheran or Methodist church and not to theirs.  All the people in their
church are older than I am, too and if I went I’d know nothing but old people,
and they don’t have the same interest I do.  How I wish I’d moved somewhere far
from Union Ave. when you left.  And this constant fencing is getting me down
more than you know.

I first talked to Marge on the phone, as I hadn’t seen her since last Sunday.
Marge said she might be over someday this week, also that her brother is now in
France and that his wife had a miscarriage.  I’m going down the loop tomorrow
afternoon and will meet Muriel for dinner and to shop.

I love you, darling, and wish you were here,
Mom and Ronnie