It is not clear if this application was partly filled out by Charles Shively in order to obtain coverage for Gordon's past medical bills, or if it had been partially filled out by someone at the Cambridge Hospital who simply was not aware of his death. ]]>
It was probably run in a local paper, as the article on the back side of the clipping (not shown) references Charles' hometown (Fairfield) twice.]]>
The date (and name) of the newspaper was not included in the section that was xeroxed, but the archivist speculates it was from 1960*, given the other events reported. This archived scan crops out the other items on the original xeroxed page, that are not directly relevant to the Shively Collection.

*(Patrice Lumumba is missing and was "given the boot" by President Joseph Kasa-Vubu, and speculated to be sheltered at the USSR Embassy; Lumumba was Prime Minister of the Congo from June to September 1960, until he was dismissed by President Kasa-Vubu, and killed on January 17, 1961. John F. Kennedy, a Senator, and Richard Nixon are campaigning against each other, which happened in 1959-1960. And, the Mayor of West Berlin is named as Willy Brandt - he was Mayor from 1957-1966.)]]>
-"Someone to Watch Over Me" by Barbara Streisand
-Opening sentences
-reading: Jon Copeland, "To everything there is a season," Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
-Meditation, led by Margaret Hougen. Celebration and Mourning
-Tributes, Stories, Memories (all mourners invited to participate)
-The Blessing
-"Somewhere Over the Rainbow" by Judy Garland

The back of the program has a xerox of Gordon's Boston Globe obituary.
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In this letter, Allan gives his condolences about the death of a mutual friend or family member named Michael, and passes on a message to Judy and (another) Gordon ("I really feel bad and ... I wish them the best of luck"). He asks "How is everyone downtown? Busy?" and adds "Soon as I come home I'll stop in and see you. I really miss not seeing you [sic]." Dated June 28 1973.

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Attached to the letter is another document - the estate appraisal, estimating the property's worth at $23,000.]]>
These upgrades were important to veterans in part because they allowed veterans to access health and other benefits. ]]>

“Dear Dad Copeland,

I was so happy to receive your letter. Skip has talked so much about you all it makes me feel as though I already know you.

You asked in your letter when we were coming to see you. I would really love to come. But to be very frank with you, we both cannot make the trip financially at this time. Skip and I have discussed this problem very thoroughly and we have decided that he should go home by Air Force Transportation as soon as he finishes his typing course. This should be about the middle of next month. He has a thirty day leave coming and I would like for him to spend as much of it as he possibly can with you all. Of course Skip doesn’t want to leave me here and I hate for him to, but we have decided that this is the best solution. I know you all must be very anxious to see him and I certainly know how badly he needs and wants to go home.

By the way, Skip got his military driver’s license yesterday; he made “100” on his written test.

As soon as we get a camera we will certainly send some pictures. How about sending us a few?

Your son bought me a lovely box of candy yesterday, but by the time part of the children on the base came around with “trick or treat” I hardly had any left.

You also asked in your letter to tell you something about myself; but I don’t know what you would really like to know. I have a brother, Bobby. I suppose he is about the same age as Bill; he was fifteen in Aug. I went home to see him play on the junior team of football last week. They took a terrific beating. I have one sister who is twenty-three. She lives with her husband at Great Lakes, Ill. where he is an instructor at the Naval Base. They will be home this Xmas. I went to visit them a year ago last summer when they lived in Newport; I thought Rhode Island was so pretty that I didn’t want to leave.

I’ll be hoping to receive a letter from you soon.

Love,
Carol"]]>

to Gordon Copeland in which Allan shares that he is now going steady with someone, dated August 4, 1974]]>

"Dear Skip,

This is a letter about you and me – strange that this should be the first letter I have ever written you.

It’s twelve o’clock midnight now and I have just finished washing my hair – I hear the screen door opening downstairs. If only it would be you but I know it won’t. This has become a set pattern that started a long time again – last Xmas.

We have been married a little over a year now but have never really known each other. We have never told each other what we really want out of life or what is deep down inside us. I so wish that our marriage could have been like your parents’ – no secrets, no doubts, sharing everything with each other, fears, dreams, hopes, and happiness.

I have always been jealous of your friends because they have always come first – first with your time and first with your money. I needed you so much while I was pregnant but you were always too preoccupied with your friends and I was hurt so because you could afford to buy liquor, entertain your friends, and gamble but could never afford to buy me a maternity dress. You often wondered why I loved [Pepper?] so – when I felt bad, hurt, or was just plain lonely, she was always there – she was the only comfort I ever had.

The first few months we were married I thought you were the most thoughtful man I had ever met and I was truly surprised how well we got along with each other. But now you seem so cold and aloof.”

The letter cuts off here, but on the back there is a note that reads “This is part of a letter I wrote you the night before I moved to Miller’s.”

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