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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1945
Page
2
A collection of letters from young children asking Santa for toys, clothing, and gifts. Key wishes include guns, badges, tea sets, dolls, toy trucks, blocks, a piano, a wagon, a fire truck, and fruit and candy, with notes about siblings and health.
Mrs W T Buchanan died at her Brinkleyville home Wednesday night December 12. Funeral services were held at Harris Chapel Church last Friday at 2 pm with interment in the church cemetery. Surviving husband a daughter Mrs Leslie Thompson of Durham mother Mrs Mattie Mabrey two sisters Elma Mabrey and Mrs M J Minty four brothers Ralph Claude Jack and Joe Mabrey and three children.
Walter Anderson of Ringwood and brothers J. H. Archbell of Battleboro and B. L. Archbell of Goldrock are noted. Cpl Algy Lee Pearson, son of Mr and Mrs J E Pearson, returns home on discharge after enlisting in 1941. Others mentioned include Miss Cornelia Smith and Billie Neal home for holidays, Miss Elizabeth Beckwith home for holidays, Mrs Haywood Pearson in Goldsboro Hospital, and Rev W R Stevens visiting Raleigh to see his ill father.
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