From: "Sue Sandall" <tws@3rivers.net>

To: <IADECATU-L@rootsweb.com>

Subject: My Schoolday Autographs

Date: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 5:40 PM

Found my mothers autograph book, thought I would post some of the signatures.

On the front it says, "Mae Marie Lovett, Davis City, Iowa."

Inside cover says, "To Mae Lovett From Harold Butcher."

Feb. 4,1945

Dear Mae,

When you get old and cannot see,

Put on your specks and think of me,

CAROL ADAIR

Feb. 5,1945

JEAN MARIE HILL

Davis City, Iowa 11 yrs.

P.S. My boyfriends

(in each corner of the page is a name)

Eldon Velton Leonard Joe

Davis City, Iowa

Feb5, 1945

Dear Mae,

Your Friend,

Donna

remember me

Monday Feb. 5-1945

Dear Mae Marie,

I will always remember you as such an interested little girl in Sunday

School. I hope you grow up and make the kind of young lady your Mother

and Daddy will be very proud of since you are their only daughter.

Your S.S. Teacher

ZULA DOWNEY

Davis City Iowa

Feb. 6th 1945

Dear Mae,

Sugar is sweet and so are you, Are you going to marry an old cork-screw.

Your Play Mate

TWYLA DAVIS

remember me always, I love you

Dear Mae,

I have enjoyed having you in my room this year. I hope your life will

be a very happy one.

With Love,

MARY ELLEN RICKER

Feb. 7, 1945

Davis City School May 1

Dear Mae, I can't write but will try. I hope when you are married a

little house you will buy and raise all the children that you want.

Love,

GLORIA M

Davis City, Iowa

May, 1945

Dear Mae,

I love you little, I love you big, I love you just like a little pig.

Your class mate

ALTA SEYMOUR

age 10

Feb 21, 1947

Dear Mae,

Mae loves her cake and she loves her pies, Mae loves her boys any old

size.

Your mean little friend,

DONNA

Yours till the ocean wears pants to keep its bottom dry!

Davis City, Iowa Feb. 21, 1947

Dear Mae,

I wish you luck, I wish you joy, I wish you first a baby boy and when

his hair begins to curl I wish you then a baby girl and when she sheds

her diaper pins I wish you then a set of twins.

Your School Friend,

BOBBY LEE WEBB

Dear Mae,

Swans on the lake, fish in the ocean you can't get married till the guy

takes a notion.

Your Friend,

TALITHA SNETHEN

Davis City, Iowa

Dec 21, 1944

Dear Mae,

Don't forget me, for if you do, I'll break your back with my old shoe.

Your Friend,

HAROLD BUTCHER