A letter that was supposed to be mailed on June 23, 1943, is just now being delivered. Its stamp says "Win the war," which would be talking about World War II. Addressed to Mr. and Mrs. Louis George of South 6th Street DeKalb, the letter found its way to their granddaughter, Janet, who was utterly surprised. "Every once in a while, you hear about letters that have been lost in showing up, you know 20 years later or something like that. I had never heard of one this long ago," she said of the 80-year-old letter.
In the letter, the person addresses the death of the recipients' baby. "I'm terribly sorry," it read in part. "You have had more than your share of grief."
According to Janet, this was the third child that her grandparents had lost in infancy. The letter just so happened to turn up out of nowhere at the DeKalb post office. It had initially been mailed from Amboy, Illinois, which is only 50 miles away. The name of the state and the recipients' house number were not on the envelope.
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A local post office worker found the obituary of Iva George online, which was dated in 2012. They then found her family via social media and were able to deliver the letter.
