Letter transcription:

MRS. R.S. YEGERLEHNER
KENTLAND
INDIANA
5-1-43

Dear Daddy – I wrote one letter this morning but thought I would dash off another. Had two letters (Apr 8 & 9) this a.m. and that made me feel pretty good – Hadn’t had any for two weeks and your letters have always come so regularily except when you were moving. John hasn’t come home yet but I look for him any time now. He got up at 5 so he could be ready to leave at 6 so I know he will be tired when he comes home. Mark & I got the washing done today – I took David out in the yard while I took the things down and he got a good sunning. He is beginning to get a tan. If I could take him out every day but the past week has been so cold & raining so much he missed some days in the sun. He is beginning to do things. Pulled the perculator off the table yesterday. He won’t leave anything on his feet so he goes bare foot most of the time. He pulls off his socks & puts them in his mouth then I can’t put them back on. I sent you some pictures last week for his 7^th month. The Rotary is back of a movement for supervised play for this summer and a kindergarten. I told our boys that wouldn’t bother them because they stay home and I think I’ll have enough work to keep them busy. The idea is to keep children off the streets but since ours always stayed home anyway they can continue to. I think the idea is good and something the town has needed long before the war started. I write you more on the subject later.

Love Mother

Yegerlehner home, E. Dunlop Street, Kentland, circa 1943

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