A Piece Of Winona Lake History Discovered 75 Years Later
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
WINONA LAKE - When identical twin sisters Eunice and Lois Marburger, then of Logansport, received this postcard from their friend Lenora in the late 1920s, they probably had no idea that they would visit Winona Lake, let alone that Eunice would eventually buy a summer cottage here.
On the reverse side of the postcard, Lenora wrote: "Hello, Girls, Don't you think this would make a nice place to go bathing?" It was signed Lenora and mailed Aug. 29, at 1:30 p.m.; however, we couldn't read (or find) a year in the postmark. The green 1-cent stamp contained a picture of Benjamin Franklin.
The postcard was tucked away for many years until it was found by Mrs. Dale (Eunice Marburger) Carey's granddaughter, Cathy Patterson, of Diamond Lake. She said, "My grandmother kept everything she ever had, and I found this postcard while going through some old boxes of hers." The postcard still was in good shape, although a little yellowed. The color picture appears to be the result of adding color to a black-and-white photo.
The twins, Eunice and now Lois Marburger Coffman, were born in 1915 and were 13 or 14 years old when they received the postcard. They are now 88 years old.
Eunice and Dale Coffman bought a summer cottage on Winona Lake in the early 1970s. They bought the cottage because their son-in-law had a cottage about "three doors down" from there. The place is still in the family, and Patterson spends time there each summer. [[In-content Ad]]
WINONA LAKE - When identical twin sisters Eunice and Lois Marburger, then of Logansport, received this postcard from their friend Lenora in the late 1920s, they probably had no idea that they would visit Winona Lake, let alone that Eunice would eventually buy a summer cottage here.
On the reverse side of the postcard, Lenora wrote: "Hello, Girls, Don't you think this would make a nice place to go bathing?" It was signed Lenora and mailed Aug. 29, at 1:30 p.m.; however, we couldn't read (or find) a year in the postmark. The green 1-cent stamp contained a picture of Benjamin Franklin.
The postcard was tucked away for many years until it was found by Mrs. Dale (Eunice Marburger) Carey's granddaughter, Cathy Patterson, of Diamond Lake. She said, "My grandmother kept everything she ever had, and I found this postcard while going through some old boxes of hers." The postcard still was in good shape, although a little yellowed. The color picture appears to be the result of adding color to a black-and-white photo.
The twins, Eunice and now Lois Marburger Coffman, were born in 1915 and were 13 or 14 years old when they received the postcard. They are now 88 years old.
Eunice and Dale Coffman bought a summer cottage on Winona Lake in the early 1970s. They bought the cottage because their son-in-law had a cottage about "three doors down" from there. The place is still in the family, and Patterson spends time there each summer. [[In-content Ad]]