Newspaper item about Will, Eva, Bill, and Roger: 12/25/1945
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An item in The Atlanta (Georgia) Journal about a Christmas visit to Will and Eva from Will's sons, Bill and Roger.
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The war is over, and the boys are home for Christmas, safe and sound.
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Lieut. Commander William F. Stokey and Lieutenant and Mrs. Roger P. Stokey are the guests of their father, Colonel William P. Stokey, and their aunt, Mrs. E. S. Evans, at their home on Rockmont Drive.
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I don't know where Bill was living at this point. He married my Aunt Grace the following month, and went with her to Massachusetts - MIT, I believe, though they lived in Boston - to get his doctorate in science.
Roger (my father) had gotten out of the Navy the previous month and arrived home to his wife Edith (my mother) in Massachusetts on Thanksgiving night. The next day they went up to Cambridge and arranged for Roger to start at Harvard Law School the following semester.
Edith had not been to Atlanta before, though she had lived with Will, Alma, and Eva at Fernbank in the summer of 1944, and very likely in other summers during World War II. Roger showed her around Atlanta during this visit. I don't know if she ever went back to Atlanta. She and Roger stayed in Massachusetts after Roger finished law school.
Bill's and Roger's sisters, Maggie and Kay, were living together in Washington DC. Kay was working as a journalist. I don't know what Maggie was doing. I imagine that they couldn't get time off to go to Atlanta for Christmas, but the four siblings met in DC the following month - see:
Roger (my father) had gotten out of the Navy the previous month and arrived home to his wife Edith (my mother) in Massachusetts on Thanksgiving night. The next day they went up to Cambridge and arranged for Roger to start at Harvard Law School the following semester.
Edith had not been to Atlanta before, though she had lived with Will, Alma, and Eva at Fernbank in the summer of 1944, and very likely in other summers during World War II. Roger showed her around Atlanta during this visit. I don't know if she ever went back to Atlanta. She and Roger stayed in Massachusetts after Roger finished law school.
Bill's and Roger's sisters, Maggie and Kay, were living together in Washington DC. Kay was working as a journalist. I don't know what Maggie was doing. I imagine that they couldn't get time off to go to Atlanta for Christmas, but the four siblings met in DC the following month - see:
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