Another telegram, once again from Frank Stevens, once again to his mother, Agnes Tully Stevens in Chicago, brings up a question. The telegram is dated June 21, 1946, just past her birthday, which is June 12. And Frank is evidently still in Mexico, though promising to come home soon.
It brings up this question: Where was Frank only one month prior? Was he still in Mexico, working with the medical team affiliated with the Bracero Program? Or was he granted leave—and able to secure the funds—to travel all the way home for his father’s funeral in May, 1946?
MRS W A STEVENS=
5945 EGGLESTON AVE CHGO=
=HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM SEE YOU SOON LOVE=
PANCHO .
hmmmm....good question! I think he went home.
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I'm sure if he wasn't home for the funeral - he moved heaven and earth to try to be...
ReplyDelete...but did he manage? With all the papers you seem to have - it seems telling in a reverse way there isn't anything about his dad's passing?
I've wondered about that silence regarding the very person that meant so much to him. But loss of this magnitude sometimes causes radical changes in personality--even temporarily. I've just assumed, at least up to this point, that this event that had such an impact on Frank, was something that he just couldn't talk about.
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