March 14
‘45[1]
Dear Robert[2]:
At
last I have got a box ready to be send (sic)[3] to
you. Maybe it will get there in good shape it’s not much but it will be a
change. It seems the others are better in sending things than we here in
Fresno. But then as you know we are slow, Cornelia seems to be as busy as ever
I don’t see how she can accomplish all she
Over
the weekend Elizabeth was at Berkeley with Paul[4] as
the two boys[5]
stayed with the H Richerts and did they have a good time. I was out there Sunday
for dinner, they butchered two pigs so next Sunday all the family and some
friends are invited to the place for dinner for a roasted suckling pig, if you
remember Hubert was allways (sic) talking about having one but I never would so
now he can have one when ever he likes. I think this is the third one since
they are on the farm[6]. I
have be (sic) working in the garden one hour a day. I have put in 3 dz
gladiolas the pansy & daffodil are in bloom and today I saw the first rose
(that is the climbing rose). I don’t remember of it ever being this early. But
we have been having nice weather and much rain. The Hall[7] are
with me yet and he is very nice about keeping the backyard clean, so that is a
good help. With much love
[1]
Also postmarked 14 Mar 1945.
[2]
Addressed to Lt. Robert B. Richert 0-2071698; 99th Bmb. Gp. 346 Bmb.
Sq.; A.P.O. 520 Post Master, New York City.
[3]
Several of the wrong tenses and spelling errors are mark as a reminder that
English was not her first language. She was born overseas in a German
community. Her degree of fluency is quite impressive for a “hausfrau”.
[4]
Elizabeth (my paternal grandmother); Paul (paternal grandfather).
[5]
William and John (my father and uncle).
[6]
I remember my dad saying Hubert subdivided some property and we were driving
around Gettysburg and Fresno, so this might have been the location of the “farm.”
That would have definitely been rural Fresno, at the time. During this subdividing,
Hubert named a street “Richert” after the family. Because Fresno and Clovis
grew with a perpendicular street grid, this street name has spread much farther
east and west than the originally named street.
[7]
Currently (13 Mar 2016) unknown, probably a border(s).
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