Had a nice long letter from your Mother which I enjoyed as much - She writes such interesting letters!
Have a Merry Xmas -
Ralph, Alice, & Helen
We hope you have a wonderful Christmas. We'll see you before New Years. Looking forward to being home. I guess we'll have a quiet Christmas here & see Sam & Jessie & neighbors. We'll ski this weekend.
Love, John & Linda
Merry Christmas and a Joyous New Year
Love, Axel, Shelly, Charli, Rafa, and Aubrey Rose
Card from Mary Bailey Adair to Alice Johnson family in Milwaukee, 1974
This is from an original by Lloyd Saville daughter Ann Dimit and Bernice's sent me some any of family can share with me.
How I did enjoy the evening with John! And I don't have to worry about the car - he will take over and has a deal on that I'll tell you about later. Priced it at $900 to a friend in Omaha so if I do need it this summer I can borrow it! I'm not sure about Dot & Walt's plans yet.
I have some lovely cards and letters for the family to read. John read a few but more came today! If I could jump far and fast enough, I'd see you all right now.
What are your plans? We are thinking of coming up there Xmas Day - then Linda and John go to Saunemin that day so you folks come down Sat. or Sun. How about it? Marge said she told you we would come up for a big kettle of soup!
Card from Laveta today - they got the meat package on Monday - I'll save her letter for you. This clipping from Record News must be Buelah's daughter? He remarried but children are younger than this one.
Also good letter from Edna (Ginny's mother).
Snowing fast right now - Marge won't be home to lunch - having office party. We will try some Xmas bread instead of cookies. R & N to come this evening, and we are all set to put up the tree tonight.
Please no bad storm!!
Mrs. Adams still in hospital until there is room for her at the nursery home. Ida Parker very low in hospital. Dewey Carr died - also Olin Hoffman from scooping snow at Thanksgiving time.
Dewey & Margaret at John C's over Christmas.
Margaret Adair Kruse addendum
See you Christmas morning hopefully by 1000 if OK by all of you & if nothing else happens - of so I’ll call again. Don’t fuss - we just want to rest and sit & visit.
Love & see you
Marge
My grandfather was known as "Pops"
Rudolph H Kruse
Ken, Eileen, Kent & Daphne
Lucy Cartland and her daughter Ruth Graham
With Love, Lucy and Ruth
Evelyn is cousin to my grandmother Mary Bailey Adair. In letter she mentions Russell, her nephew and Martha, her sister-in-law and mother of Russell and Bill (brother) & Mary and their son Jim.
I hope that you all have a very Mrry Christmas and Happy New Year. I mailed your mothers card to Reading is I didn't know where she would be and marked it to be forwarded. But I hope that she can be with you. We will go to my sisters in Hallowell. There will be only 5. Russell has gone to NJ to preach. Martha will be with him. Bill and Mary visited Jim in the fall so their family won't be coming to Maine. There will be no children there. Again A Happy Holiday Season
E-
Hazel was the spouse of Billy Miller (who passed in 1967).
Dear Alice, Ralph and Helen Sue:
Love, Hazel
Dear Ones in Milwaukee
Well the time is going fast and Christmas will soon be here. Suppose you will go down and be with the Chicago folks. Had a nice long letter from your mother and guess there was a lot of excitement around when the kids were all home over Thanksgiving. Guess they had a lot of snow out their way. We haven't had much snow yet and nice weather most of the time. Sam was going to write you but that shortness of breath came back on him last Saturday & he hasn't been feeling very good since. So that I better finish these up. Hope he gets to feeling better as we are supposed to go to Simla, but won't go if he doesn't. I'm hoping our weather stays nice. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays
Love to all,
Sam & Jessie
Naomi mentions Adrienne, Orin, Fred and Ruth. Also Kathleen & Gene Dochnal plus John Chalmers and Patty/John Ahart and her sister Sue.
Dear Friends and Loved Ones... from Indialantic, FL
Dec 1, 1983 Naomi mentions visit with John Adair, Fred & Twila returning from Hawaii, Orin & Norrine at home.
This card was written after 1990. Ruth going to visit daughter Patricia family in Cedar Rapids including her husband Stan Smith and their children Patty and Susan. Ruth visited her other daughters Sue in Murphysboro and Jeanne in Los Angeles. Jeanne received 1990 award for Lead Performance in Holy Days.
Year 1991 family newsletter.
Christmas 1964 from John, Rosemarie, Steffen and Axel Cartland
Card from Gene and Kathy and children. Kathleen married Gene Dochnahl.
Four Christmas cards include one from Evelyn Bailey mentioning Lucy & Ruth Graham.
Christmas card and Birthday card from Jessie & Sam Adair
Two Christmas cards from Mahoney family; Oakland married James Mahoney. I think "Charlie" is father of Oakland who died in 1964; Pearl died in 1959. It was sure nice to see Earl as Santa.
One Christmas card and one photo of children, Audrey Duane Pam
Christmas and New Year from Margaret and Dewey Adair. This is another clever message including map all folded.
This Christmas greeting from Margaret and Dewey Adair is in prose and includes map for travels adding Latitude/Longitude lines.
Two Christmas cards from the Orin Adairs.
Two Christmas cards from Maury, June and Edwin. First mentions "that little girl", presumably Helen. Second mentions that Earl and Mary are in town.
Two Christmas cards from Dreschers. First is Jennette & Christian, second is Eileen, Ken, Kent and Daphne
December 1961 letter re Head household in Canada including Wilson, Phyllis, Norman, Greggie, Renee
1955 Christmas letter by Phyllis Head re Wilson, Norman, Greg