Life’s treasures, the most special ones, have
a way of surviving generations. My maternal grandmother, Henrietta Danker,
wrote her Aunt Emma and Uncle Oscar Solum. The Solums lived in Chicago and the
Dankers lived on a farm outside of Chicago. Emma was the younger sister of Julia
Duntemann, mother of Henrietta.
Emma and Julia saved the letters, which were
passed to Henrietta. Upon Henrietta’s death the letters passed to her only
surviving child, my mother. Upon my mother’s passing the letters came to me.
All Grandma’s letters closed with variations of this closing:
Thousands of kisses and hugs from
momma and I
Linda
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