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SULLIVANS*WRITES PARENTSLetter Says One Died on Raft; Joseph’s Fiancee Here from Pittsburgh,A letter saying: that George Sullivan, 28, oldest son of-Mr. and Mrs. Thomas P. Sullivan, 98 Adams street, had died on a life raft and that their other four sons had gone down with their ship, the Juneau, has beenreceived by Mrs. Sullivan, she said Friday.However, Mr. and Mrs. Sullivan, still smiling thru their tears, have not entirely given up hope.Mr. and Mrs. Sullivan declined to give the name of the writer of the letter, but said that he was a Nebraska boy, writing from Chicago while awaiting assignment. The sender said in his letter that he was a shipmate of the Sullivan boys.“i ilGeorge died on a life raft T was on,” the letter said. The other four boys went down with the ship and were killed immediately, so they did'not suffer.”“All. Hopes Went Down.”‘‘Everything I ever hoped to have went down with that ship,” .said pretty Miss Margaret .Jaros, 23, fiancee of Joseph Sullivan, 24, one of the five boys officially reported missing.Miss Jaros arrived^ at midnight Thursday by train, coming all the way from Pittsburg, Pa., to console Mrs. Sullivan.Hazel-eyed and demure. Miss Jaros told Friday how she had met Joseph and of the plans they had made to be married.Saw Picture in Paper.She said:“I saw the. pictures of the five brothers in a newspaper in February of last year, a month after they had enlisted. I told two of my girl friends who were with me at tr.e time that I thought I would try writing to one of the boys. -They laughed and dared me to do it.It was on a Monday that I wrote to Joseph. I was surprised when I received an answer on the following Friday. He had written from Brooklyn.Joe came to see me the following March in Pittsburgh. It was last May that I saw him the last time.”Joe Said He’d Return.Her only hold on hope is the fact that Joe told her that he would cams back. /He said no J/ip could keep him from it,” she said.Miss Jaros has two brothers in the armed forces, Stephen, 21. a member of the construction unit of the navy, somewhere in the Atlantic and George. 25. a corporal with the United States field ar-(Continued on page 2, column 3)
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Waterloo Daily Courier
Waterloo, Iowa, US
Fri, Jan 15, 1943
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