Mrs. Robbins Gets Comforting Letter

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Date: 1/25/2014 at 00:31:39

Mrs. Robbins Gets Comforting Letter

Office of Davenport Company Quotes from Message Received by Widow of President McKinley

Mrs. Louis E. Robbins of Keosauqua, whose husband, a worker in the melt room at the ordnance plant near Burlington, was missing following the explosion December 12, has received a comforting letter from Fred L. Ray of Davenport, as follows:

Davenport, Iowa
December 19, 1941

Mrs. L.E. Robbins,
Keosauqua, Iowa.
Dear Mrs. Robbins:

Have just learned thru our salesman, John Conkling, of the loss of your husband. If possible, we should like to take you by the hand, and express our sympathy personally but, as we are unable to do that, we are dropping you these few lines so that you may know that our thoughts are with you, and that our hearts go out to your during your time of sorrow.

While it is difficult to find words to convey our sympathy, we feel that your husband gave his life in the defense of his country just as much as tho he had been on a battleship in Pearl Harbor. Some of us are called to serve in one way, and some in another, and your husband's name belongs on the list of heroes, just as much as any one of the men who lost their lives in Hawaii.

When President McKinley was assassinated, this is a part of a letter that was written to Mrs. McKinley, which we think might be of help to you now:

"Thy tender husband, our Nation's chief magistrate, has passed earth's shadow into Life's substance. Thru a momentary mist, he beheld the dawn. He awaits to welcome you where no arrow wounds the eagle soaring, where no partings are for love, where the high and holy call you again to meet.

"I knew that thou hearest me always' are the words of Him who suffered and subdues sorrow. Hold this attitude of mind and it will removed the sackcloth from they home."

With sincere good wishes, we are
Yours truly,
Crescent Macaroni & Cracker Co.
By Fred L. Ray, Secretary

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