Goshen Woman Gets Postcard From Mom 60 Years Later
GOSHEN — While cleaning out filing cabinets Tuesday at the Quality Inn & Suites, manager Christine Combs stumbled across an old postcard tucked away in one of the drawers. The postcard was dated Aug. 26, 1958, but she wasn’t sure how it wound up in the cabinet.
“I looked at the date and thought, how strange is that?” Combs said. It was addressed to “Miss Sharon Ann Gongwer” of Wakarusa, so she looked up the name. It didn’t take long to find the intended recipient, now living at Waterford Crossing in Goshen — only two miles from the hotel.
The postcard was written by her mother Mary and described, in tiny print, adventures from her time in Southern California. It cost only three cents to have the postcard delivered, and on the front was a photo of palm trees lining a neighborhood street.
On Thursday, Combs met with Gongwer at Waterford Crossing and presented her with the postcard that had been lost for nearly 60 years.
“It’s a touch of my mother,” Gongwer said. “I don’t have many of her things anymore.”
Before passing away in 1973, Mary enjoyed traveling and sending postcards back home. Gongwer remembers having a good relationship with her growing up in Wakarusa.
Neither Combs nor Gongwer suspected how the postcard ended up at the Quality Inn & Suites, but Combs said she was glad she came across it.
“Some people probably would have thrown it away if they found it,” Combs said.
Source: WTHR