Home

Page 1

Reference URL

Save to favorites

To link to the entire object, paste this link in email, IM or document
To embed the entire object, paste this HTML in website To link to this page, paste this link in email, IM or document
To embed this page, paste this HTML in website

[Letter from Jean Holdridge Reeves to her father, 1945]

Page 1

Save page

1 of 2

View Description

Page Flip View

View Image & Text

Download

small (250x250 max)

medium (500x500 max)

Large

Extra Large

Full Size

Full Resolution

This page

All

Image
Text

search this item

Text Search...

Loading content ...

you wish to report:

Your comment:

Your Name:

...

Title	[Letter from Jean Holdridge Reeves to her father, 1945]
Date	1945-03-01
Item creator's name	Reeves, Jean Holdridge
Subject headings	World War, 1939-1945 American Red Cross
Era	World War II era (1940-1946)
Service branch	Red Cross
Item description	V-Mail to Jean Holdridge Reeves' father expressing her support of their move from Iowa to Ohio. She also mentions forming a singing group and her other recent activities.
Veteran's name	Reeves, Jean Holdridge
Veteran's biography	Jean Holdridge Reeves (b. 1920) of Marion, Ohio, served in the Pacific as a member of the Red Cross from 1944 to 1946 . Jean H. Reeves was born in Marion, Ohio, on 27 January 1920 and moved to Bloomington, Illinois, at the age of 14. She graduated from Bloomington High School and then earned a bachelor's degree in home economics at Illinois Wesleyan University. Reeves worked as a teacher at Gads Hill Community Center in Chicago . Reeves joined the Red Cross in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1944 and reported for duty in Washington, D.C., on October 15. After several months of training, she was sent to staging in San Francisco for a month before being sent overseas in January 1945. Reeves was stationed in New Guinea, where she operated in recreation clubs at Lae and Nadzab. In summer 1945 Reeves was transferred to Clark Field in the Philippines to work in Red Cross canteens." Reeves was discharged from the Red Cross in spring 1946, and married Thomas Long Reeves, a soldier she met while in New Guinea, on 2 March 1946. The couple moved to Pittsboro, North Carolina, and raised four daughters.
Place	New Guinea
Type	text
Original format	correspondence
Original publisher	[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified]
Language	en
Contributing institution	Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries
Source collection	WV0383 Jean Holdridge Reeves Papers
Rights statement	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Additional rights information	IN COPYRIGHT. This item is subject to copyright. Contact the rights holder noted above for permission to reuse.
Object ID	WV0383.4.011
Digital publisher	The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5304 -- http://library.uncg.edu/
Full-text transcript	Dearest Daddy," When this arrives you will undoubtedly be sweating it out by yourself in Atlantic. I am very glad that you have decided to move to Ohio because I'm sure you're all be much happier. It must have been a hard decision to move I'm hoping you'll never be sorry for it. Now I think of your being settled for keeps and once again being to call Ohio home. I am now waiting transportation to go to the hospital to see one of our girls and a P.O. friend of mine. Much keep in good or we get no mail. Penny has been in for a week now and the two of us run the club. We got one of the hospital ARC girls to sing with us and now have a trio, singing ""Don't Fence Me In""""Don't Sweet heart me"" and ""Cuddle up a little closer"" Have radio talent shows from the club each Thurs. and we're going to join in. Hope you are fine and all the office�my regard to love especially. Lovingly, Jean
OCLC number	900817125

[Letter from Jean Holdridge Reeves to her father, 1945]

Object Description

Page/Item Description

[Letter from Jean Holdridge Reeves to her father, 1945]

[Letter from Jean Holdridge Reeves to her father, 1945]