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Elaine E Anacker

1904-1979
Born: Maryland, United States
Died: New York City, New York, United States

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    <p>(1) Letter to Kathryn [Dietrich] Gasbarro (1915-2003) from Elaine [Anacker] Dietrich-Girard, 23 Sep 1977.&nbsp; Mailed from 302 M Cedar Run Place, Baltimore, MD 21228.</p><blockquote><p>Dear Kathryn,</p><p>It seems a long time since we exchanged letters that I can&#39;t recall who wrote last.&nbsp; I&#39;ll try to bring you up to date on recent news.&nbsp; Erlaine&#39;s daughter Barbara is getting married Nov 6.&nbsp; It&#39;s to be a big wedding at a church in Bronxville N.Y.&nbsp; Reception later at the Country Club.&nbsp; Her husband to-be is an Acct. Executive with a stock brokerage firm in Phila where they will live.&nbsp; I hope to atatend if all goes well.&nbsp; My mobility has slowed downn considerably in the past few years.</p><p>My sister Una May has put her home up for sale.&nbsp; Neither she nor Vernon are in the best of health.&nbsp; Both have been hospitalized within the past few years.</p><p>My sister Doris divorced Lou - sold her home and bought another one.&nbsp; Her son&#39;s daughter lives with her and I think she&#39;s happy for the first time in a long while.</p><p>We had a long hot humid summer and the prediction is for another cold winter.&nbsp; Brrr.&nbsp; I&#39;ll never forget last winter&#39;s snow and ice.&nbsp; I couldn&#39;t get out of the house for three weeks.</p><p>I hope you and Norman are in good health and whether or not you&#39;ve sold your house.&nbsp; I&#39;d love to hear from you soon.</p><p>Love, Elaine.</p><p>&nbsp;</p></blockquote><p>(2) Letter to Kathryn [Dietrich] Gasbarro (1915-2003) from Erlaine [Dietrich] Ellinghaus, 21 Jan 1979.&nbsp; Mailed from 55 Crows Nest Road, Bronxville, New York 10708.</p><blockquote><p>Dear Kathryn,</p><p>I know this will come as a&nbsp; shock to you but Mother had a major stroke last summer and ws left without speech or the use of her right side.&nbsp; She is in Mary Manning Walsh Home, 72nd and York Ave., N.Y., N.Y. and receiving excellent care.</p><p>I apologize for not letting you know sooner but I&#39;m just getting around to dropping notes to people other than immediate of course.</p><p>Mother is stable but doesn&#39;t have too much awareness but that&#39;s one of the worst things about strokes - you never really know.</p><p>I hope you and you family are well and will have a fine 1979.</p><p>Love, Erlaine.</p><p>&nbsp;</p></blockquote><p>(3)&nbsp; Letter to Kathryn [Dietrich] Gasbarro (1915-2003) from Erlaine [Dietrich] Anacker, 2 Apr 1979.&nbsp; Mailed from 55 Crows Nest Road, Bronxville, New York&nbsp; 10708.</p><blockquote><p>Dear Kathryn,</p><p>It saddens me to tell you that Mother died March 27th.&nbsp; She really hadn&#39;t made much progress since her massive stroke May 30th and her passing was in many ways a blessing for her but a great wrench for me.</p><p>I would appreciate it greatly is you let relatives and friends know who would be concerned.</p><p>Many thanks and best regards to your family.</p><p>Erlaine</p><p>&nbsp;</p></blockquote><p>(4)&nbsp; Postal Card to Kathryn [Dietrich] Gasbarro (1915-2003) from Erlaine [Dietrich] Ellinghaus, 8 Jan 1973.&nbsp; Postmarked Yonkers, New York.</p><blockquote><p>Dear Kathryn,</p><p>Just a hasty line to let you know Mother is in the hospital recovering from a broken arm and hip.&nbsp; She was standing on a chair to reach something when the chair flew out and down she went.&nbsp; She&#39;s making good progress and should be home by the 17th.&nbsp; Do drop her a line - she&#39;d love to hear from you.</p><p>Sincerely, Erlaine Dietrich Ellinghaus</p><p>&nbsp;</p></blockquote><p>(5)&nbsp; Letter to Kathryn [Dietrich] Gasbarro (1915-2003) to Elaine [Anacker] Dietrich-Girard, 1 Nov 1968.&nbsp;&nbsp; Mailed from 174 Meadow Rd., Riviera Beach, MD&nbsp; 21122.</p><blockquote><p>Dear Kathryn,</p><p>Your letter to Glendale reached me via Wyckoff NJ and forwarded to me here at my sister&#39;s home in Maryland.&nbsp; I sold part of my furniture and shipped the rest to Erlaine&#39;s home which will be my permanent address.&nbsp; It was my original intent to visit the east for about a month but I was hospitalized with a slight heart attack the day before I was supposed to leave.&nbsp; Later I decided to make it a permanent move.&nbsp; That was really hectic.&nbsp; I finally left Glendale Aug 7 and then came here to Maryland Sep 7 where I shall be &#39;til mid January.&nbsp; My grand-daughter Marcia whose husband is stuidying to be a doctor in Italy decided to have her baby born in U.S.A. so that makes me a great-grandmother.&nbsp; The baby was born Sept 14 - a little girl whom she named Kristen.&nbsp; I chose to spend time here until Marcia returns to Italy on Jan 19th.&nbsp; Fortunately he was still on summer vacation when the baby was born, and will be home again Dec 19th for the month&#39;s Christmas vacation.&nbsp; Meanwhile Marcia is occupying my living room - bedroom and bath combination guest room that had been added to their home less than a year ago.&nbsp; ricky, who was 21 in August will go to Georgetown Univ.&nbsp; He too plans to be a doctor.&nbsp; Doug 18 1/2 went into the navy Sept 2 and is home for two weeks (after basic training) when he will be assigned to a cargo ship at Norfolk.&nbsp; Erlaine&#39;s youngest Jonathan was two years old in July.&nbsp; Believe me that was quite a houseful in August when I was there.</p><p>You asked about my husband, his first heart attack was in May of 66.&nbsp; He worked part time after that for six months but had to give it up.&nbsp; Then on June 21st he had a coronary and died before reaching the hospital.&nbsp; It was quite a shock.&nbsp; He looked the picture of health.&nbsp; We had 26 1/2 happy years together and I really mean that.&nbsp; He was good to both my father and mother and wonderful to me.&nbsp; Erlaine and Bud visited us in April and we all went out together and had a grand time.&nbsp; This included Doris and husband and also Carlisle and his wife.&nbsp; Later I flt I wanted to be with Erlaine &#39;tho I hated to leave California.&nbsp; I&#39;ve forwarded your letter to Erlaine as I know she&#39;ll be intersted in your son&#39;s activities since they are near in ages.&nbsp; Most of her boys are musically inclined.&nbsp; Chipper (Raymond) near 15 plays and sings with his guitar and also takes organ lessons.&nbsp; At time he and Doug had trheir own little combo.&nbsp; The family spends their summers in Ocean City, Md. and the boys playing their music drew crowds (nearly 100) on the beach nightly.&nbsp; Someday I hope to see you and have a nice talk.</p><p>Here is my address in Md.</p><blockquote><p>Mrs. Elaine Girard, c/o G. V. Ruhl, 174 Meadow Rd., Riviera Beach, Md&nbsp; 21122</p></blockquote><p>My address in NJ.</p><blockquote><p>c/o Mrs. W. M. Ellinghaus, 500 Weymouth Dr., Wyckoff, NJ&nbsp; 07481</p></blockquote><p>I may phone you when I return about mid-Jan.</p><p>Love, Elaine</p><p>&nbsp;</p></blockquote><p>(6)&nbsp; Letter to Kathryn [Dietrich] Gasbarro (1915-2003) from Elaine [Anacker] Dietrich-Girard, Dec 1971. </p><blockquote><p>Dear KAthryn,</p><p>It&#39;s that time again for Xmas greetings.&nbsp; There was lots of news in you last note.&nbsp; Always interested in family news.&nbsp; My sister Una, Vernon and I attended grandson Doug&#39;s wedding in Apr.&nbsp; The I went up there again in May to take care of the household while she (Erlaine) made numerous trips back and forth to their newly purchased home in Bronxville, N.Y.&nbsp; After the home was completely redecorated I went back again in Nov.&nbsp; Last summer I visited them twice at the Ocean City Md. home which they had purchased about two years ago.&nbsp; Am spending Xmas here in Md.&nbsp; Una May is expecting her daughter (Rev. Mr. &amp; Mrs. Hinkle) and four children from Ohio.&nbsp; Their ages are 9 to 16 - two boys and two girls.&nbsp; It should be an exciting time.&nbsp; Hope we old folks can take it!&nbsp; This is my 44th message in Xmas cards.&nbsp; Have written them to friends &amp; relatives to eight different states!&nbsp; Hope this past year has been less anxiety for you than the previous one.</p><p>Love, Elaine</p><p>PS.&nbsp; I&#39;ve been waiting for the enclosed photo reprint before signing off.&nbsp; In the meantime your Xmas card came with enclosures.&nbsp; That must have been a very lovely wedding.&nbsp; My grandson married a girl with dark hair and large dark eyes too.&nbsp; He is getting out of the Navy next June and live in Wyckoff, NJ.&nbsp; Marcia, erlaine&#39;s oldest child returned from Bologna, Italy, and her husband is interning at a hospital in N.Y.&nbsp; They have Kristen age 3 and expect and addition in May.&nbsp; After four years in Italy they are glad to be home again.&nbsp; Her name is now Mrs. Richard Barone.&nbsp; His folks are natives of N.Y.&nbsp; I met them in Nov.&nbsp; Lovely people.&nbsp; Ricky is still at Georgetown Univ - they have a son, nearly 2 yrs, Eric Jr. (Two dollars in the family).&nbsp; Chip now 18 will go to Notre Dame next year.&nbsp; Barbara, 21 on Dec 23 has two more years of college majoring in business Administration at Madison College, Harrisonburg, Va.&nbsp; That leaves Mark 12, Christopher 9 and Jonathan 5.</p><p>The only Bob Anacker in our family is one of Carlisle&#39;s twin sons age 12.&nbsp; William has two sons. &nbsp;Matthew who was married last June and Goeffrey in Alberta, Canada - not married.&nbsp; He&nbsp;followed his sister Christine &amp; husband ther - They are sort of pioneering - bought a large piece of land, growing organic food.&nbsp; Georgia, two years out of college, very attractive unmarried spends her summers in Maine on Monhegan Island - a resort.&nbsp; At present she is home in Md.&nbsp; She hob nobs with the Andrew Wyeth family of art fame.&nbsp; At one time I thought she might marry one of the nephews.&nbsp; Doris has two, Gary 16 and Diane 13.</p><p>Last Sunday we ent to the 25th Annual Presentation of the Messiah by the chorus of the U.S. Naval Academy and Hood College.&nbsp; Guest soloists were from N.Y.&nbsp; It was truly awe inspiring.&nbsp; Yesterday we went to Annapolis on a tour of Colonial homes.&nbsp; We live only about a half hour&#39;s drive from there.</p><p>I want to wish you and all the family a joyful Christmas and a Very Happy New Year.</p><p>Love, Elaine</p><p>&nbsp;</p></blockquote><p>(7) Letter to Kathryn [Dietrich] Gasbarro (1915-2003) from Elaine [Anacker] Dietrich-Girard, 14 Dec 1972.</p><blockquote><p>Dear Kathryn,</p><p>What a delightful surprise to receive that photo.&nbsp; You look lovely and your husband - so debonair.&nbsp; I am going to send it to Erlaine with a request that she return it to me.</p><p>I was indsiposed for several weeks, therefore late in sending my Christmas cards.&nbsp; We&#39;ve had so much rain and mild temperatures.&nbsp; Even the lawns are still green!</p><p>You have much to be proud of in your children.&nbsp; They have so much better advantages than in our times.</p><p>I&#39;ll give you a run-down on Erlaine&#39;s children starting with the oldest:&nbsp; Marcia has two girls age 5 and 9 mos.&nbsp; Husband is a doctor.&nbsp; ricky will be graduating from Georgetown with high honors - Will intern at Charlottesville Va. hospital.&nbsp; Has one son age 2 1/2.&nbsp; Barbara has one more year at Madison College in Va.&nbsp; Douglas out of the navy.&nbsp; married and living at Fair Lawn N.J.&nbsp; Chipper 19 entered Dayton O. university this year.&nbsp; That leaves only the three youngest boys at home.&nbsp;Mark 13, Chris 11, and Jonathan.&nbsp; All will be home for Xmas.&nbsp; What a houseful!</p><p>I&#39;m glad to hear your Dad is better.&nbsp; I know what shingles are. I had it when my husband was hospitalized.&nbsp; I&#39;m ten years younger than your mother and it sems she has more energy than I!</p><p>I visited Erlaine in mid-October when the foliage was most beautiful.&nbsp; Bronxville is a beautiful town - mansion-like homes and beautiful churches and schools. The children walk to school (2 blks).&nbsp; The shopping village is quaint - no signs hanging in front of the stores.</p><p>Una May&#39;s daughter Luverne, is married to a minister in Crestline, Ohio.&nbsp; They&#39;ll be here Dec 26 with their four children ages 11 to 19.&nbsp; Two girls and two boys.&nbsp; After they arrive we&#39;ll probably visit David (Una May&#39;s son) and family on the Eastern Shore - Wye Mills, Md.&nbsp; He is owner of Wye Tree Experts Inc. and is doing very well.&nbsp; He enjoys spoprt fishing and hunting.</p><p>I never seem to get a letter finished the same day.&nbsp; It is very cold today with high winds.&nbsp; haven&#39;t been to the department stores to see all the decorations.&nbsp; Una May has a bad cold but fortunately she did all her shopping early when I couldn&#39;t go.&nbsp; I did mine by phone.</p><p>Hope you have a nice Xmas.</p><p>Love, Elaine</p></blockquote><blockquote><p>&nbsp;</p></blockquote>

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