Postal worker delivers World War II-era letters to Arkansas family

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KAIT/KARK) - A Texas postal worker recently delivered several letters written by a World War II soldier from Arkansas to his family members, 80 years after they were originally sent.

Alvin Gauthier recently found a few undelivered letters from a veteran who fought during World War II, that ranged from 1942 to 1945.

“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,” he told our content partner KARK. “You got to think World War II.”

Gauthier eventually found 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 did my research and contacted you all and here we are,” Gauthier said.

Gauthier said he was able to find Lamb’s family through many phone calls and emails from people reaching out.

“I’m very excited and very tearful,” Marion Lamb’s sister JoAnn Smith said.

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