WWII letters reveal parents’ untold love story

[Subdeacon Joe]

Before Darrow Beaton passed away from lung cancer in 2008, he sent his
eldest daughter, Jane Bartow of Tucson, Arizona, four boxes of family
photos. But the boxes contained much more than just pictures. To Jane’s
surprise, when she pulled out the photos she found over 1,000 pages of
love letters that were exchanged between her father and her mother,
Elinor Landgrebe Beaton, from December 1941 to November 1945.

 

 

 

[Shorty Jack Hammer]

Very cool... I have all the letters and "v mail" my grandfather and grandmother exchanged from the day he arrived at boot camp until he returned from Europe during WWII.