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February 4, 1946, Elkie (Eleanor - Mrs. Jack Zaris) replied to Hi´s recent letter, filling him in on all the news in Camden, New Jersey about her family and passing on many good thoughts to the Bloom family.
Hi had just recently discharged from the service, and presumably Mort and George were on the same track.
Elkie talks about her two children, Gil and Dale, and how they all hope they will be able to go to California to see "Aunt Ethel".
Elkie encloses $5 for the new nephew, Kenneth Bloom, and asks Roz to use it as would appropriate.
She asks if Hi is going to join any Veteran´s Groups, and mentions that her brother in law (her Husband Jack´s brother) Loren ?, who was a prisoner of war, is head of AmVets.
It should be noted that Elkie and Dale, together, and then Gil on a separate trip, ultimately did visit California, some 16 years later in 1962 or so.
Dale grew up to be a Social Worker and marry an attorney who dedicated his work to helping the indigent as a Public Defender. Dale was a published author. Her first (and only) book, "Lust of Linda Levy" is available on Amazon. Its remarkably well written. Dale had several kids, and died in 2023.
Gil married Sue and had a child, worked extensively and ultimately became vice president of a large shopping market. Both Gil and Sue still live in New Jersey.
Sasha visited Elkie in Camden, on several occasions, the first time being in the summer of 1966, when he was 15, taking advantage of a Greyhound Bus trip fare which allowed him to pay "$99 for 99 days". He left the Greyhound terminal in Hollywood, California and arrived in Camden, 3 days later. He visited with Elkie, Jack, her husband, Elkie´s mother Fanny. Gil, and Dale. He returned to see Elkie two years later, in the summer of 1968, where he flew to see them. On both of those trips, he then traveled north to see the Odinaks in New Haven, Connecticut.
