2/6/1967
Dear Linda ?,
Letter from Ferne Tindall to-day. Telling much about Stanley King’s family, in LeMars (Iowa). And also a strange given name, Irene! Not forgetting, Linda, who works in Bell Telephone office in Sioux City.
Other names, not mentioned. One important. Most important, I should say, is Linda will be 19 on February 8, 1967. Congratulations, Linda.
I will be 85, on this same day. I am Ferne’s oldest Uncle, at this time. Brother to Ferne’s father, the late Warren J. King. I am Abraham G. King. Still living are Vernon King, Bessie Labahn and Evah Brodie, which is one brother, two sisters from the King family of eleven.
I am thrilled with knowledge of a relative born on my birth date, February 8th. Only last year at this time did Ferne greet me with this message: “Exactly 84 years, Uncle Abe, since you first learned Columbus discovered America!” Sometimes I think she is almost as funny as a hole in a parachute! Not as funny but almost as phony!
I hope she heard on T.V. last night, Sunday, 9 p.m. PST, the Smother’s Brothers debut on CBS. Ed Sullivan introducing and showing, The Brothers-Mother-and Grandmother. Went like this: Smothers Brothers-Mothers-Mother! You say it! I stutter.
Bye Linda-
I hope you get this note.
From-Abe King.
89 – So. 3rd St.
San Jose, California
Weather real nice today. Thankyou.
***Following is how the above hand-written letter was addressed and mailed:
Linda !
c/o Bell Telephone Office
9th and Douglas
Sioux City, Iowa
Long Distance Operator!