{"id":668,"date":"2010-09-08T06:27:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-08T11:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/rottman-letter-17-december-1942\/"},"modified":"2013-07-07T16:11:28","modified_gmt":"2013-07-07T21:11:28","slug":"rottman-letter-17-december-1942","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/rottman-letter-17-december-1942\/","title":{"rendered":"Rottman Letter, 17 December 1942"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A continuation of letters written by my great-grandfather, George Rottman.\u00a0 The letters were written to his children while he was away from home visiting family in Iowa and Wisconsin in the 1940s.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>George sent this letter about a week before Christmas in 1942.\u00a0 It was written to Marge (Rottman) Comerford, her husband Lawrence, and baby daughter Shirley.\u00a0 A transcription follows the images.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/lh4.ggpht.com\/_udfzp1vLXt0\/TIP9gbWXbyI\/AAAAAAAAFpU\/UXhOICdKjRk\/ROTTMAN%2C%20George%20ROTTMAN%20Letter%2017%20December%201942%20%28envelope%29%5B3%5D.jpg?imgmax=800\" width=\"500\" height=\"286\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/lh6.ggpht.com\/_udfzp1vLXt0\/TIP9g2k7q3I\/AAAAAAAAFpY\/mQ_EwpiX-X4\/ROTTMAN%2C%20George%20ROTTMAN%20Letter%2017%20December%201942%20%28page%201%29%5B3%5D.jpg?imgmax=800\" width=\"500\" height=\"796\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/_udfzp1vLXt0\/TIP9hKBn7xI\/AAAAAAAAFpc\/6vsTwVpjpuk\/ROTTMAN%2C%20George%20ROTTMAN%20Letter%2017%20December%201942%20%28page%202%29%5B3%5D.jpg?imgmax=800\" width=\"500\" height=\"800\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<blockquote><p>Wild Rose Wis<br \/>\nDec 17-42<\/p>\n<p>Dear Marge Laur &amp; Shirley Ann<\/p>\n<p>Received your letter and was glad to hear from you.\u00a0 I am well hope you all are the same.\u00a0 I got a card from Mabel with a buck in it.\u00a0 I just ans it\u00a0 I also got a letter from Ed, Marie, Marge, and Geo.\u00a0 So it keeps me busy writing and buying postage stamps Ha. Ha.\u00a0 Ed sent me air mail stamps 2 of them so I used one on his letter and put one on Mabels as I only had one 3 cent stamp left untill I get to town\u00a0 It still keeps snowing up here it is about a foot deep now.\u00a0 Dick [Richard Rottman?] finaly bought a farm for $4,000.\u00a0 Its a nice place not far from a lake and 2 1\/2 miles to Wild Rose\u00a0 Well I will make this letter sort as I will tell you all when I see you.\u00a0 I expect to come in the day before Christmas if I am not snowed in.\u00a0 So will ring off untill then<\/p>\n<p>Love to all<\/p>\n<p>Dad<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A continuation of letters written by my great-grandfather, George Rottman.\u00a0 The letters were written to his children while he was away from home visiting family in Iowa and Wisconsin in the 1940s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25,26],"tags":[312,331],"class_list":["post-668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genblog","category-personal-research","tag-family-comerford","tag-family-rottman","cat-25-id","cat-26-id"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3HcLI-aM","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3516,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions\/3516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}