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Title: Anna Lee Freeman to Lucille Ley - December 4, 1944
Description: Anna Lee implies in her letter that she has recived word that her son is dead. She mentions that she is still praying for the other members of the crew that are only reported as missing, including Jimmy. Anna Lee tells Lucille about an old friend of her son that paid her a visit and the good memories he brought back. She asks Lucille to write back any news she hears.
Date Created: 1944
PID: grinnell:26510

Title: Anna Lee Freeman to Lucille Ley - November 2, 1944
Description: Anna Lee talks about her son and his reported death. She mentions that her son sometimes talked about Jimmy in his letters home as they were part of the same crew. She offers her sympathy to Lucille (presumably because Jimmy has been reported as missing) and hopes that maybe they have heard different news.
Date Created: 1944
PID: grinnell:26507

Title: Anna Lee Freeman to Lucille Ley - November 24, 1944
Description: Anna Lee mentions the connections she's created with the other crew members' parents. She sends pictures and information regarding crew to keep Lucille updated on the situation. She asks Lucille if she has recieved the last letter one of the crew member's was able to write and says that if not she will send it her way.
Date Created: 1944
PID: grinnell:26509

Title: Brooklyn Hatchery and Produce Receipt
Description: Receipt from Brooklyn Hatchery and Produce to Wallace Breniman for hens, roosters, and ducks. Dated Nov. 10, 1944.
Date Created: 1944
PID: grinnell:27263

Title: Certificate of Award presented to William Kaloupek from the Office of Price Administration
Description: Certificate of Award presented to William Kaloupek of Grinnell, Iowa, by the Office of Price Administration for his participation in the War Price and Rationing Program. Presented on January 1, 1944.
Date Created: 1944
PID: grinnell:17367

Title: Cottage Moar
Description: Cottage Moar, the house in England which housed the United States Army 335th Signal Company during World War II.
Date Created: 1944
PID: grinnell:6517

Title: Edna M. Smith to Lucille Ley - December 14, 1944
Description: Edna expresses disappointment that her son is not in the photo Lucille sent. She says she has heard from all the other next-of-kin except one. She muses on the little information she knows about her son's military service and comments that she still has not received any off his personal effects. She wonders whether Lucille has ever been asked to settle Jimmy's estate, a process which she calls "red tape." She doubts whether George is actually dead without proof. The mothers swap photographs of their sons.
Date Created: 1944
PID: grinnell:26522

Title: Edna M. Smith to Lucille Ley - November 13, 1944
Description: Edna outlines the chronology from the time she received notice that her son was missing in action to the time she received the list of crew members killed in action and Lucille's letter at almost the same time. She says her son never gave out any information or sent any photos, so she is glad to have more information. She begs Lucille for any additional photos or information she may have and expresses her solidarity as another mother of a missing soldier. She promises to send any updates she receives.
Date Created: 1944
PID: grinnell:26521

Title: Grinnell High School Band 1944
Description: Grinnell High School Concert Band in the high school auditorium, 1944. The band director was Paul Behm. The 1944 Grinnellian (Grinnell High School yearbook) lists the following band members. Flutes: Bill George, Alyce Powers, Dorothy Cox, Vera Hansell, Betty Kaisand, Cynthia Nichols, Marjorie Mitchell, Donna Walker, Donna Maron. Oboes: Bob Noyce, Olive Van Riper, Margaret Lowrey. Bassoons: Gaylord Noyce, Margaret Hoyt, Margaret Ann Jones. 1st Bb Clarinets: Paul Bucksbaum, Joan Padgham, Kathryn Keeney, Robert Hall, Helen Halstead, Robert Couper, Mary Lou Goff, Ruth Swindal. 2nd Bb Clarinets: Charles Kaufman, Gerald Peters, Nancy Scurr, Joan Mintle, Marie Osborn, Norman Dille, Donna Rae Gove, Jeannine Lee. 3rd Bb Clarinets: Janice Dempster, Dorothy Van Donselaar, Max Todd, Orville Hanson, Patsy Jo Ohl, Stanley Korfmacher, Jimmie Jorris, Gordon Scott. Alto Clarinets: Helen Staffanou, Patricia Nolan. Bass Clarinets: Marilyn Lincoln, Rosemary Morrison. Alto Saxophones: Dean Scandrett, Russell Sawin, Jack Riles, Martha Ann Farley. Tenor Saxophones: Willard Mattingly, Tommie Sangster. Baritone Saxophones: Willis Rayl. 1st Cornets: Wanda Mackin, Dale Stark, Willis Shaner, Max McDowell. 2nd Cornets: Ray Swart, John Scott, Beatrice Mattingly, Mildred Phipps. 3rd Cornets: Serge Phelps, Glen Taylor, Evelyn Pederson, Susan Muckler, Robert Staffanou, Richard Watkins. French Horns: Grace Lang, Joan Laros, Jean Tinnes, Marilyn Parmley, Imogene Newcomer, Mary Ann Nelson, Charlotte Matthews, Elaine Lincoln. Trombones: Bob Smith, Edmund Kaisand, Maynard Raffety, Eugene Smith, Shirley Smith, John Padgham, Jackie Swaney, Maynard Kenyon. Baritones: Dowal Dickerson, Richard Knowles, Jerry Laros, Lela Mae Strovers, Marjorie Edwards. Basses: Richard Dawkins, Buddy Hatcher, Robert Gault, Chuck Christison, Kenneth Cessna. Snare Drums: Donna Dow, Joan Anderson, Sally Van Riper, Phyllis Ruble, Thomas Playle, Rosemary Talbott, Gladys Ann Smith. Bass Drum: Jean Bouma. Tympani: Roger Nichols. Twirlers: Dorothy Bell, Donna Rae Dimit, Patricia Ditzler, Irene Main, Marilyn Simpson, Rosellen Terpstra, Esther Tiedemann, Velma Wray. Secretaries: Mary Fitzpatrick, Kathlen McCarty. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives.
Date Created: 1944
PID: grinnell:29806

Title: Jimmy Ley to Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Ley - February 14, 1944
Description: Jimmy mentions war news, what he had for dinner, and that he received a second Oak Leaf Cluster.
Date Created: 1944
PID: grinnell:18739