Letter to the Editor

Column brings back memories of Ellsinore, Mo.

To the editor:

Thank you for Joe Sullivan's column regarding the loss of Gladys Leach. Having grown up in Ellsinore, Mo., the column brought me so close to home. I knew of Gladys all my life and used to receive the Van Buren Current Local and read her articles. When my mother passed a few years ago, somehow reading that the death angel had taken her made it easier.

It amazes me how many people who no longer live in that area still subscribe to the Current Local and can't wait for the paper to arrive each week. I have an 80-plus-year-old great-aunt living in St. Louis who says it doesn't matter what project she is in the middle of, when the Current Local comes, she stops and reads it cover to cover.

The column's comments on the death angel, fried chicken, chicken and dumplings and the Ellsinore streetwalkers who would walk then head to the Log Cabin for a meal made me smile.

Thanks again.

CONNIE BARNETT

Benton, Mo.