Letter to:
Guadalupe "Lupe" Guerra Cirilo

My Dearest Mother,

Today is Friday, no it's Saturday. We are in Votaw, Texas at the church house with the Fleetwoods. It is not church time but there are lots of eager and devout people here singing and playing several instruments.

Lotus came with us. We got here from Lotus' home in Centerville at two in the morning last night, or today, rather. Dolly and her family are here also. Dolly is playing her accordian and singing. Dan Hays is putting some palmetto leaves on the brush arbor outside. Dickie, my wife, is cooking here in the same building. It is all good, and God is rather to be worshipped ... but I have some mixed emotions, not justified, but very real.

My baby Lotus is sad today and hoping and praying that God performs a miracle in her home. Her husband is a good man until he drinks, then he is mean. We are praying that God will perform a miracle in their life.

I grieve to see any of my children with a sorrowful heart.

I imagine we will be in Houston Tuesday or Monday after the weekend.

We will be remembering you in our prayers.

Hoping to see the day when you are free to come with us. Life is passing you by.

We stayed about three days with Lotus. We helped with the garden, with the tractor, and with the horses. Come Friday night and we left. Lotus and her two boys came with us.

I love you, as we all do, and we need your prayers.

With Love
Your Eldest Son,
Charley

 

by Eleazar Cirilo, n.d.
All works here, Copyright © Lotus D. Cirilo, 1999

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