Texas postal worker hopes to deliver World War II era letters to Jacksonville family
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Packages and letters are nothing new to those at the post office, but for one out-of-state worker he said he found something he was never expecting and hopes to deliver it to who it belongs to.
Alvin Gauthier said he found a few undelivered letters from a veteran during the time of World War II. Although he is trying to find the family to deliver them too, there’s a hiccup, the letters have no address except for Jacksonville, Arkansas.
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“I’m loading my truck and then I find this envelope with all these letters in it, and you can see it’s from 1942.” Gauthier said. “You got to think World War World War II.”
The undelivered letters range from 1942, 1943, 1944, and 1945 all have an U.S. Army Stamp on them. Gauthier said he also found out the person who wrote the letter was Marion Lamb and he was in the infantry unit.
“I don’t know how it got there (in his work bag filled with mail), I am clueless,” Gauthier said.
The letters have no address on them except that it’s for a Mr. and Mrs. Henry Lamb in Jacksonville, Arkansas.
“I talked to a guy in the postal office when I got back and he said they just had zones way back, they didn’t have regular addresses,” Gauthier stated.
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Gauthier said that when looking closer at the letter, he could tell that it was addressing Marion’s parents.
In one letter, Marion writes “I feel much better today after the mail call we had last night.” It goes on to say, “maybe our mail service isn’t going to be so bad here at our new place after all. I hope not.”
“I just really want to get these letters to the right family,” Gauthier said.
Gauthier said he knows how important these letters are because he is a Marine Corp Veteran.
“I was in Iraq, and I wrote my parents’ home, and you boost your morale,” Gauthier stated.
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Gauthier hopes to find help to finally deliver these letters to Marion’s family.
“You have some great people in the Post Office so it’s like this letter should go to this guy’s family,” Gauthier said.
If you or someone you know has any information that could reunite these letters with the family, you can email him.
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