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Charlie. It was a diary, and on the inside cover, she Harry Truman, John and Jackie wwii
wrote “To dear Charlie, Bon Voyage and a happy Kennedy and many more. As
landing. Love, Joyce.” Charlie and Loretta wrote to the “pen is mightier than the
Joyce and sent her care packages for a while but lost sword”, Charlie was a genuine
track of her when she married. warrior.
He was discharged on February 3, 1946 at Ft.
Devens, Massachusetts. Charlie and Loretta had five
children, two girls and three boys but the last, a boy,
died a day after his birth. Charlie worked several
jobs and later landed a job at the North Adams
Transcript in Massachusetts. He stayed there for 17
years. His wife’s health was declining, so he took
a job in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. He
eventually moved to Hobbs, New Mexico, where
he retired in 1985 as City Editor of The Hobbs Daily
News-Sun. Loretta passed away in 1991. Her friend,
Bernice Wisdom, a widowed school teacher, and
Charlie, who were both members with Loretta in a
genealogy society, “somehow drifted together” and Charlie attended the 2017 Texas South
married in 1993. Charlie off-handedly mentioned Plains Honor Flight and thoroughly
that, during his many years as a newspaperman, he enjoyed being with his fellow veterans.
met such famous people as Franklin D. Roosevelt,

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