Dear Folks from Norma

From Garden City

Front page of the letter

Dear Readers, 

I am sorry it has been so long since I have shared a letter, I had such grand ideas for this blog, but life became to overwhelm me. If you don't know, I am unemployed and looking for a job, which takes a lot of time and energy, and I am also attempting to make a new life in the Houston area, and sometimes I feel like my life is not what I expected. And the last couple of weeks have been draining for me emotionally. But I have listened to a couple of audiobooks and podcast about pursuing your goals, my biggest dream is to be a published author, but I also want to share these letters, to start back off I will transcribe a little card from Norma Condit in Garden City, Kansas to Parda and Juanita Condit (Halsey's parents).  

Circled are Garden City where the letter is written and Liberal where the Condit Family's farm was located 

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Garden City, KS

Dear Folks, 

Winnie* had a wonderful trip & liked flying.

Tonight at 6 I got a telephone call from my honey from Switzerland. 

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I was so thrilled! Winnie was in the store & got to say hello to him. It was midnight at [in] Switzerland. You see he is on furlough to Switzerland + Rome^. I got a call Sunday saying he has started his furlough. 

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I thought you would like to know. 

~Norma 

Video: American G.I.s in Switzerland (YouTube)  

*-Winnie Condit is Halsey's older sister, and I would like to learn more about Winnie's flight that is mentioned here.

Winnie Condit (1904-1991)

 ^- Wrote about Halsey's time in Switzerland in my "Lugano, Swiss" post