Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 13, Number 13, DeMotte, Jasper County, 5 February 1943 — SERVICE NEWS [ARTICLE]

SERVICE NEWS

is home on a 12 day Albert Terpstra and Paul Obenchain are home on furloughs. Write to Lester Raska, Co. R 113 Med. Bat. APO 38, Camp Livingston, La. Pvt. Robert Peterson, 613 Tech. Bch. Sqa. Bp., Wing C. Group XII Prov. Bqd. 0.. room j 323, Atlantic Cit, N. J. I PFC Virgil has. quite a hobi by, saving his cards and letters. He received 306 letters 76 cards and 37 packages in four months. Many thanks to all his friends who have remembered him. I Mrs. Sam McGinnis received a letter recently from her grandson, Marshall Coberly, who is somewhere in Australia. He wishes to thank the people of the Methodist church and all others, who sent him Xmas gifts and he wishes everybody well, back here in DeMofte, his home town. He says he is getting along fine, has gained 20 pounds since going into the service, 16 months ago. Doris Schwanke is spending : a furlough with home folks, j Bhe has been stationed with j the WAACS at Baltimore, Maryland. Pvt. Herman Woudema stationed at Detroit and Andrew Woudema at Peru, Indiana, brothers, are both enjoying a five day furlough. I .. , v .y ~ ' : •, C • j Friends of Ed DeVries will be glad to know that he is slowly improving. He has been in a serious condition at the Rensselaer hospital for more than a week, suffering with pleursy and complications.