tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293877031257687709.post4114105829348269952..comments2014-08-19T06:01:14.107-07:00Comments on Letters From Okolona: "Letters From When I Was Overseas"Letters From Okolonahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02059241052695909873noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293877031257687709.post-47593714277577390542010-08-31T18:13:41.871-07:002010-08-31T18:13:41.871-07:00Sam, I have really enjoyed reading the letters tha...Sam, I have really enjoyed reading the letters that you have found in 'the house'. I understand completely as my wife and I had to go through my mothers home and my grandmothers home and also found similar items of their past. <br />Reading the letters, I can visualize your father and your grandmother writing him back. She was so small in statute but proud and very much alive even in her last years where we would sit in the living room or her kitchen and visit. I just remembered that I have even stayed the night there and helped her with things around the house when I was a youngster. But watch the back porch, you might fall through.<br />There was a green couch or chair if I remember right and as a child I would sit in the chair at the little table by the bottom of the stairs and draw in the notepad she kept by the old rotary phone. Just past the phone was your grandpa's room. I remember him in the hospital bed before his health began to fail him.<br />Oh yea, and the truck, he drove that old thing to Okolona EVERY time he came home. <br />Anyway congratulations on the project and I look forward to reading any more letters or any other memorabilia you discover.<br />Take care. <br />Bobby B<br />PS I like Joyce don't remember the store but I do remember the stores sign in the garage behind your grandmothers house.Bobby Beanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11078580375972812402noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293877031257687709.post-40262164376545204362010-01-14T18:10:54.772-08:002010-01-14T18:10:54.772-08:00Sam, This is such a treat for me. I had known your...Sam, This is such a treat for me. I had known your grandparents from the time I was in elementary school. I can clearly imagine them; Mrs. Graham at the cash register and Mr. Graham always on the move around the store footprint. To me, they were like characters in a storybook. I never knew them as regular people. The store had closed before I graduated from high school, although I can't remember the exact year. <br /><br />Your doing this project is just fantastic! thank you for sharing this insight. I enjoy stumbling across names that I have either heard of from my own grandmother or knew in their late years. <br /><br />Joyce B.Salliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07448465672825251398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293877031257687709.post-11214595467642786392010-01-14T14:02:45.047-08:002010-01-14T14:02:45.047-08:00What an awesome idea! Thanks for sharing!What an awesome idea! Thanks for sharing!jdavissquaredhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01911942484823419064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293877031257687709.post-943021643222469532010-01-14T07:03:10.735-08:002010-01-14T07:03:10.735-08:00i'm looking forward to this project of yours.....i'm looking forward to this project of yours...Christinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05183231711425591135noreply@blogger.com