"Signed, Sealed, Delivered"

I have enjoyed "Signed, Sealed, Delivered" a program on Hallmark about the dead letter office.  I found on familysearch.org a family story as good as any on Hallmark.

Our family relationship: The first cousin of Camilla SMITH WOOD (1926-1999) is Virginia SMITH ALLRED (1906-1998) she is the subject of this story. Virgina is daughter of (Ike) Isaac Samuel SMITH (1878-1936) and Lula Annie YEATES SMITH (1884-1969).

Virginia recieved a "dead" letter from her mother 43 years after it was mailed.  The letter was written and mailed 28 July 1936 by Lula from Logan, Utah to Washington, D.C. with a 3 cent stamp.  It was found in the Altlanta, Georgia Dead Letter Office and found its way to Carmichael, California 43 years later in 1979. The family had moved from the return address 22 years earlier. The letter arrived  10 years after the death of the Virgina's mother.

 "Signed, Sealed, Delivered"

Thanks rosaliaannbrown1 for sharing family history. 

Mother Lula in center flancked by her Smith daughers 

 Virginia, Ruth, Mother Lula Annie, Mary Jean, Lu

granddaughter Virginia and mother Lula pictured in 1910