Christmas Poetry

To Blanche
        from Elmer
                with Love

A lifetime of Elmer Riggins'
Christmas poems from long ago

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To my son, David

This box has held for many years,
  Thirty-nine treasures I hold most dear.

They are letters of love to my loving Mother,
  From my dear Dad, her foremost lover!

You'll always remember the good times you shared,
  While their love they bestowed to show you they cared.

You spoke at one time you would like to take,
  All of these tokens a scrapbook to make.

I've wrapped these memories in ribbon so red,
  That tells you in part just how you were bred.

May you treasure them always until at last,
  Your own Mom and Dad are all in the past!

Dorothy Rathgeber - December 1989 (daughter)

Dorothy Riggins Rathgeber 1916 - 1993

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