April 2014

4/14/2014

Ginny

4/14/2014 12:08:07 pm

via email

am hoping you are the right person to contact at Local Union , IBEW Local 2222 Retirees. I want to extend an invitation to you or someone else who might like to attend a memorial service for one of your former union members.

Exactly 40 years ago -- we think -- our cousin, Letteria Catherine Post, retired from Verizon, or what became Verizon. She died Dec 31, 2013 at age 86. She was a single woman who never married or had children. I do not have any evidence that she joined or participated in, or donated to the Retiree Club -- but she rarely went out or visited with any organization beyond her local Arlington Senior Center after retirement, and then did not go out any more at all.

When she still spoke about such things she spoke often about her union, and how hard everyone worked to obtain and maintain benefits for workers like her. She saved every single record and card she ever received from her fellow workers, and in many ways they were her closest companions during her working years, since she had no family of her own beyond immediate relatives, of which I was one. One of her retirement cards said "A Gift for You" and came from Local 2222. I have no idea what that gift consisted of, but I know she appreciated it.

If your or one of your senior members would like to join us at her memorial service we would be pleased and honored to have her [or him] join us and help us recall the importance of the union today and in those long-ago days, and have lunch with us, as a way of saying thank you for that long ago gift from the Union members to Letteria.

Best to you all,

Norma Swenson, Newton Centre MA 02459

Ginny

4/14/2014 12:09:54 pm

Via email

Dear Friends: After “Sis”, our cousin Letteria Post, died at the end of December last year, we agreed to plan some moments of remembrance for her later in the coming year.

That time is now here, and we are wishing that people who knew her will want to meet and talk with one another about how they remember “Sis.” She was cremated and her ashes will be buried in the Swenson Family plot, next to her aunt Sarah and her cousin John Swenson, as was her wish. We invite you to join us,

Saturday, May 3, 11 a.m.
At the graveside on Field Road
Across from Flicker Path
{Near Grove Street Gate}

Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge MA 02138

Lunch & Memorabilia Viewing Following Interment

12:30 PM
THE AEGEAN RESTAURANT
www.aegeanrestaurants.com/
640 Arsenal Street
Watertown MA 02472

Norma and Sarah Swenson

We look forward to hearing from you and hope to see you there.

* Please R.S.V.P. by May 1 to Sarah Swenson at [email protected] or to

Norma Swenson at 617-969-8444

Nancy & Jack Kerns

4/14/2014 12:11:25 pm

Thanks Ginny, we wish we had the pleasure of knowing Sis........
jack & Nancy Kearns

Pam

4/14/2014 12:12:35 pm

That is just beautiful.
Please extend my condolences to Ms. Swenson on the death of her Aunt Letteria Catherine Post.

Pamela M. Harrison, CWA Retiree

Norma

4/14/2014 12:13:50 pm

Thank you for all condolences. Is there still a possibility that someone from the union retirees could come?

Best, Norma

Ginny

4/14/2014 12:15:09 pm

Hi Norma
I am the Chief executive of the TWRC and I will be attending the graveside at Mt. Auburn. Your letter has been post on our web page http://www.twrcma.com/letters-from-retirees.html
and sent out in our email listing.
Ginny Rossi

Norma

4/14/2014 12:55:57 pm

Delighted you will be there! We look forward to meeting you and having you represent union colleagues

Best Norma

Karen Gillis

4/15/2014 12:46:43 pm

Karen wrote: "I worked with Letti she was a typist in Arlington"

Joanne Grossi McPartlin

4/15/2014 12:48:53 pm

Joanne wrote: "I believe this is Lettie, which some of our co-workers knew who worked in Installation and Repair in Arlington. She was clerk in Installation in Arlington on Pleasant and Mystic street. I am hoping some of the people who live in the area will be able to attend. My husband and I both knew her."

philip

4/17/2014 03:53:33 pm

you are very kind and compassionet to think of our fellow worker you are to be praised for what you are doing i am not sure but if i can i would be honored to attend a memorial for our member philip flattich

Norma

4/17/2014 03:55:15 pm

Hi Ginny:

So hoping this would happen, that some people might remember her. Have some pictures of her earlier "working girl" days they may recognize. Sounds like the McPartlins are too far away, but if Karen Gillis thinks she would like to come I think that would be fine, and she would be most welcome.

Ginny

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