MySource:Srblac/Donna Reichard Ferguson Letter

Dear Scott

I’m sorry its taken so long for me to get this back to you but it’s been a month of having a virus, preparing for Christmas, entertaining, etc.

To the best of my ability I will give a synopsis of my life. So of what I write will be redundant but you will cover pertinent points.

I graduated from CHS in 1938 and went to work at R.R. Donnelley in the bindery and art department. I entered the service in Sept 1942 stationed at Des Moines Camp (then) Polk La., Devens, Ma, trained in Air Raid Warning Serv. And Recruiting. Went overseas, landing in Oran, N. Africa, then Cacerta, Italy, Marseilles France, Dijon, France and left for home in 1945 from Compeigne, France.

I went to Ind U. (Indiana University) for 1 ½ yrs, met John (Ferguson) and our married life has taken us thru 24 moves - sometimes within same city. I paint, cut tiffany-style glass, play duplicate bridge and write poetry, occasionally. I’m enclosing a sample of some things I’ve done.

I admire your taking on our family history. I used to think I would write a fictitious story based on Moses II‘s life (Moses Cooper is Donna’s GGG-Grandfather on her mothers side), covering the Revolutionary War, his trip from Piscataway N.J. to Lone Pine Pa, near Washington Pa. But wouldn’t or couldn’t do it well. How I wish that journals would have been written back then. Just to know more than a B.D (birth date) and a D.D. (death date)! We (Naomi, John, & I) went to the cemetery in Lone Pine and found the tombstones.

I suggest you visit Naomi. She remembers so much more than I, and can correct any errors made.

Have a good life.

Yours Sincerely

Donna Ferguson