On October 24, 2004 mom sent this letter to the Northwood Family YMCA: Dear Membership Director, Due to circumstances beyond my control, I must cancel my YMCA membership at this time. Please stop my direct billing as soon as possible. (I am paying $27.00 per month at this time.) Should my situation change, I […]
On October 15, 2004, I sent a letter to my mom shortly after she had come to visit me in Los Angeles. I wrote: Mom, I just wanted to write you to say that I really had a good time while you were here visiting. It was so much fun to get to show you […]
A thank you letter mom wrote to my partner
Here’s a letter mom wrote in early 2003 to the billing department of Horizon Healthcare Center, one of the assisted living facilities where my grandmother lived. I don’t know if she actually printed this and mailed it to them, although I assume she did.
In the middle of March, in 2013, among thousands of mom’s scraps of paper and notebooks and letters, I found a handwritten will. It is dated 6-3-88 and is in mom’s indescribably perfect Palmer script: 6-3-88 To Whom It May Concern: In the event of my death, this is my last will and testament. […]
On November 2, 1979, Robert P. Morrow, Jr., the Assistant State Attorney of the Seventh Judicial Circuit of Florida, sent a letter to Luther P. Jones, then chief of police at the Holly Hill Police Department. Dear Chief Jones, I would like to commend you on the selection of your new dispatcher, Kathy Gagne.1 […]