Postcard gets to
home 70 years late
This undated photo, shows a postcard delivered to an address in Elmira N.Y., during the week of Nov. 12. The postcard was originally sent nearly seven decades ago. (AP Photo/The Star-Gazette, Jennifer Kingsley) CORNING OUT;
In this undated photo, sisters Madie Paodgorny, left, and Hannah Podgorny hold a postcard intended for two other sisters, Pauline and Theresa Leisenring, who once lived in their Bridgman Street home, in Elmira N.Y. The postcard delivered during the week of Nov. 12 was originally sent nearly seven decades ago. (AP Photo/The Star-Gazette, Jennifer Kingsley) CORNING OUT;
ELMIRA, N.Y. — A postcard mailed nearly 70 years ago has finally arrived at the former upstate New York home of the couple who
sent it.
The postcard was sent July 4, 1943, from Rockford, Ill., to sisters Pauline and Theresa Leisenring in Elmira.
Their brother, George Leisenring, was stationed at Rockford’s Medical Center Barracks at Camp Grant, an Army post during World War II. Their parents were visiting him when they mailed the postcard home.
The postcard reads in part, “Dear Pauline and Theresa, We arrived safe, had a good trip, but we were good and tired.”
Elmira’s Star-Gazette newspaper reports the postcard arrived last week at the family’s former home, where a different family now lives.
A postal official says the postcard may have been found by someone outside the postal service and placed in the mail.
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