Letter transcription:
Fri – 11:45
I didn’t get this letter mailed last night. Mother just passed away. I am still at the hospital but getting ready to leave. Your Mother just came in on the bus. Alma met her at the bus. Alma has been “old faithful.”
I am having autopsy done – after I get the report will let you know.
I have to go to the telegraph office and dispatch some messages.
Love Mother
Emma Foster, circa 1940s
©2015 copyright owned and transcribed by Deborah Sweeney
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Genealogy Lady 
We all knew it was coming, but so sad nonetheless. We can see her distress in the unusual form of the letter….
So candid Deborah. This one must have really been something to open up!
I wonder when Roscoe found out. The postmarks on the envelope indicate that this letter probably did not make it in a timely fashion. I guess we will see when/if Roscoe makes mention of it in a letter to Gladys.
I knew when Emma died so when I first received the letter collection I tried to find the ones around her death.
Ah, so you had a spoiler!
Kind of! 🙂 I was disappointed to find out that there isn’t anything in the letters about another family member that died during the letter writing. He died suddenly just as Roscoe was getting home on leave in 1944.