Dolly takes a turn for the worse and dies. Leonard sends Arnold a telegram with the sad news and then a letter with the details.
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Letters among the William E. Nevis family from World War II into the Baby Boom and the Eighties. 1943-1986. The first set of letters are World War II letters from Leonard J. Nevis to his brother Arnold H. Nevis, 1943–1945; second set to and from Arnold 1943–1951; third set Nevis and Wolfe family history; fourth set Arnold and Newlin 1952–1986; and final set Newlin's story 1986–2016
Dolly takes a turn for the worse and dies. Leonard sends Arnold a telegram with the sad news and then a letter with the details.
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Hazel mistakes the date here: Tuesday was July 18, 1950. For reasons to become clear in a couple of posts, the letter could not have been written on the 20th.
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Two letters from Leonard on the same day:
Dolly's health has taken a turn for the worse, but then she rebounds a bit and may recover. It appears to be nephritis, not gastroenteritis as first diagnosed.
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