(WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- A postal worker in DeKalb managed to deliver a letter that was first mailed more than 80 years ago.
Written in 1943, the letter expressed condolences to Louis and Lavena George, who had lost a child. It was sent by a family member and postmarked in June of that year.
A postal worker finally got the letter into the hands of their daughters, with the help of social media.
A surviving daughter of the Georges spoke to CBS 23 in Rockford.
“A message from the past, seemingly showing up out of nowhere, that’s pretty incredible,” Jeannette George said. “Everybody was just like, ‘My god,' you know? Gobsmacked."
The postal worker who discovered the letter said it was probably not delivered because of an incomplete address.
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