Email to Lou Ives

Subj: address check
Date: 4/21/05
From: Gwloeman@aol.com [George Loesch]
To: avmidn@aol.com

 

LOU:

IT WAS NICE AND INTERESTING TO GET YOUR LETTER (SNAIL MAIL). I WAS PARTICULARLY INTERESTED IN THE PHOTO (bs2Ioesch01.doc) AND IWOULD LOVE TO HAVE YOU SEND ME A COPY OF IT.

I AM WRITING AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND IT WOULD FILL A VOID IN THAT TIME LINE. 

I LIVE IN MANSFIELD (MY TOWN OF BIRTH) OHIO WHERE I PRACTICED MEDICINE AFTER GRADUATING FROM OHIO STATE IN 1956 (M.S. AND M.D.). I MARRIED AND HAD FOUR SONS WHO ARE ALL NOW GROWN (12 GRAND CHILDREN).

I FLEW IN THE RESERVE IN COLUMBUS OHIO FOR TWO YEARS AFTER DISCHARGE (Martin AM-2 Maulers) BUT I WAS FORCED OUT WHEN I WENT TO MEDICAL SCHOOL.

WHEN I WENT INTO PRIVATE PRACTICE I FLEW A CESSNA AND A TWIN APACHE FOR SEVERAL YEARS UNTIL 1 RAN OUT OF MONEY (J)

I RETIRED 12 YEARS AGO AND NOW l DO A LOT OF PHOTOGRAPHY AND COMPUTER GRAPHICS.

I STAY IN TOUCH WITH BOB OSBORN (VR-22) WHO IS LIVINGIN SAN DIEGO AND STILL FLYING PRIVATELY. I HAVE CORRESPONDED WITH HOWARD "RED" EBERLY WHO WAS A PILOT WITH UNITED FOR MANY YEARS--HE IS RETIRED AND RAISES AVOCADOS IN CALIFORNIA.

A FEW YEAR AGO I STOPPED IN PANAMA CITY FL AND WENT INTO THE 'ROWELL BUICK AGENCY' AND TALKED WITH "REX" MY PBY FLYING BUDDY.

I WOULD BE INTERESTED IN THE CD. GET BACK TO ME. YO HAVE MY ADDRESS.

REGARDS, GEORGE

 

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Ottumwa, Iowa, Preflight Class 9-46 [AvCad]