My Family Story — Lives well Lived

The papers are yellowed and tattered from years of neglect in the top of my grandmother’s closet, but they tell a story of a family man from the Great Depression through the space race of the 1960s. The words in the letters and postcards narrate the story of Margaret and Richard Cromlish, my paternal grandparents who were married on a Wednesday in late November 1939 at her parent’s home. For a little over two years, there was…