Icel's brother, Harold was stationed in China.
Her brother Ralph was in England and Paris.
Ray and Terry and Vi with Linda, the little angel Ralph only saw one time before she left this earth much too young.
Ray Perkins was never sent overseas during the war. He was stationed in Tallahassee, Florida. Here is a great page concerning the troops in Florida during WW2: http://fcit.usf.edu/wwii/military.php. He was actually sent to a hospital in Spokane for a time because he had to have his appendix removed.
Vi and Icel wrote letters everyday to their "boys". Can you imagine the discipline, the tenacity, the lack of time watching TV that would have taken? I cannot. They must have just told them everything that was happening at home so they wouldn't feel they had missed anything.
Ray came home for good in June 1945. It became apparent that his father would never be able to run his farm again. He had severly broken his elbow and he was in his 70's. He wanted to give the farm to his son but that was not Ray's desire. Ray and Icel helped with the work it takes to get a farm ready to sell then they helped get them moved into Spokane. They lived out the rest of their lives in a house just next to North Central High School. After Grandpa Perkins passed away Grandma Perkins married a railroad man. After he passed away she 'rented a room' to a man whom she never married because of her previous husband's railroad pension. I think they were married in the eyes of God just not by the law of the land.
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