(Reprinted from Pensacola News Journal)
The Gulf Breeze FL Post Office at 100 Northcliff Drive received thanks recently for delivering a letter from World War II veteral Lyman Edgar in an envelope with a mangled address to friends in Pensacola Beach.
“My husband and I are amazed that you managed to deliver an envelope with a mangled address written by a 98-year-old Colorado World War II veteran with ties to this area,” said Ann Boone Johnson and Bill Johnson in letter to Gulf Breeze postal employees.
The Johnsons added, “Lyman can no longer hear or see well and lives alone, so he addressed the envelope the best that he could.”
They described Edgar as “an old cowhand and my husband’s uncle, only missing Colorado’s Arkansas Valley Fair once in his long life – in 1945 when he was in the Navy and stationed in Panama City, Fla., during the war.”
The envelope with Edgar’s letter also contained a newspaper article about his being named the honorary parade marshal at this year’s Arkansas Valley Fair.
“Thank you so much for your attention to detail and to the spirit of the U.S. Postal Service who won’t let anything stop them,” wrote the Johnsons to their Gulf Breeze mail handlers.
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