This was among papers marked “Official” in Mom and Dad’s things. I’m surprised at the vagueness of information and wonder how the addresses were obtained (oh, okay, read the note at the end) without the Internet (yeah, I know I lived without the Internet for much of my life, but it seems so long ago and such a tedious process).

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Consult your local telephone directory or post office for local address

All copies of DD form 214 now in your possession are for your own personal use. Do Not return any copies of this to the Selective Service Board

Please Note This

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All male separatees shall be advised that whether or not they are exempt from induction they must report to a Selective Service Local Board within 30 days of the effective date of separation for the purpose of being registered under the Selective Service Act of 1948.

I’ve only been in the Country Evangelical Covenant Church aka Lily Lake Swedish Covenant Church aka Chicken Woods Church once that I recall and that was for my Grandma Patrick’s funeral. It is possible I was there for my Grandpa Patrick’s funeral, but I am willing to bet my parents left 2 year-old me with a sitter.

Grandma Patrick was a member of the church and very proud of it. My dad went there until he didn’t have to go to church anymore and I think my cousin, Robert, and his mother, my Aunt Corrine, still go there.

I cannot find any reference to “Chicken Woods” on the Internet, but I know my dad called the area around the church, “Chicken Woods” and the church website mentions “Chicken Grove” ((Interesting bit of historical fact, Charles Ingalls lived in Chicken Grove for a few years as a child.)). I even think my husband and his brothers refer to it as “Chicken Woods” so perhaps it was a local name for the area.

In Grandma Patrick’s curio-cabinet was a framed drawing of a church that I always thought was of the church she attended in Denmark as a child, but now I see it was the Lily Lake Church.

So that’s all I have to say — here’s the drawing, probably from a church program.