Postal worker hoping to deliver World War II-era letters to Arkansas family

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KAIT/KARK) – A Texas postal worker is making an effort to get several World War II-era letters to a Jacksonville family.

Alvin Gauthier recently found a few undelivered letters from a veteran who fought during World War II, going back to 1942.

“I’m loading my truck and then I find this envelope with all these letters in it, and you can see it’s from 1942,” Gauthier told our content partner KARK. “You got to think World War II.”

Gauthier was eventually able to find out the person who wrote the letters: Marion Lamb, who was in the infantry unit during the war.

The letters were addressed to “Mr. and Mrs. Henry Lamb” in Jacksonville, but that’s all they had.

“I just really want to get these letters to the right family,” Gauthier said.

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