A letter lost in the post office in 1943 was finally delivered after 80 years of waiting.
Last month, a letter addressed to Mr. and Mrs. George reappeared in the post office in DeKalb, Illinois, according to the local WIFR publication.
One of the facility’s employees tracked down surviving members of the George family, the paper said, and found Grace Salazar, the daughter of Louis and Lavena George, to whom the letter was addressed.
The letter, according to WIFR, came from Louis’ first cousin, who was sending her condolences to the couple after they lost their daughter Evelyn to cystic fibrosis.
The postal worker who found the letter believed it had gone missing years ago because the mailing address did not include a house number, the home said.
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Not long after receiving the letter, Grace sent it to the Georges’ other surviving daughter – her sister Jeannette.
“A message from the past, seemingly out of nowhere, that’s pretty amazing,” Jeannette told WIFR. “Everybody was like, ‘Oh my God,’ you know?” Disgusted. Just like, ‘What is this?’ ”
Noting that she was “emotional” when she saw the decades-old letter in her hands, Jeannette added: “Losing a child is always terrible, [and] it just kind of put me in touch with my parents’ grief and the losses my family went through before I was even born.”
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Today, Jeannette said she is grateful and appreciative of the family she has.
“As I get older, I appreciate extended family more and more, especially my nieces and nephews. I just have more of a sense of continuity in life, family,” she told WIFR.
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