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Letters, Postcards, Clippings

George Fernandez Letter #3

HCR 61 Box 4
Clallam Bay, Wash. 98326

June 6, 1989

Dear Mrs. Poulsen:

I got your pictures today. I want to mail them back to you from
the Post Office, Certified. I will be at the Post Office in a
You wrote is this the house my mother was born in?
week or so.

Thanks for sending me the pictures to look at. I can tell you a
lot about them. I have copies of some.

Now the big picture of the woman standing in front of the house.
Your mother was born in that house.
I don’t know who the woman is, but [I suspect it is] your
grandmother (my mother’s sister) who was married to Otto
Pontine. Your grandmother was not born in this house. She was
born in Breslau Germany and did not come to America until she
was five or six. Otto Pontine made this house and of course when
she married him at the age of 15 she lived with him there. You
have 3 copies of this. I have a copy too.

Now the picture of the log cabin behind the picket fence and the
two women in front. To the left is my grandmother. To the right
is my mother Gertrude. She has a little girl on her lap. My
mother might be 16 in that picture. I was told that the little
girl was a school teachers daughter. Now the other one with the
log cabin, and three standing in front. To the left is my
grandmother, them my mother Gertrude, and at the side of the
ladder is my grandfather. I have this picture, in a large frame.

Now the woman in the stiff photo was my mother at the age of 21;
It was made in Germany when the family went to Germany in 1909.
I have copies of this.

Now the last picture. Second from the left is Laddie, as you
know. Next to Laddie is Jimmy Pontine, his brother, perhaps two
years older than him. The girl in front of the two is your
mother, Betty. She used to be called Lizzy. To the right there
are two small boys standing in front of two women. I don’t know

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