University Daily Kansan / Thursday. April 18, 1991
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Writing more than 100 letters a week, Lawrence woman wins military hearts
By Nedra Beth Randolph
Kansan staff writer
When Rheba Wales says she likes to write letters, she really means it.
The 58-year-old Lawrence resident writes more than 100 letters a week, mostly to service members still stationed in the Persian Gulf.
"I started writing, and it sort of ran in a really big job," she said.
Wales, who used to be a letter carrier, said she had a list in her computer of more than 200 names and addresses of service members stationed everywhere, from on ships in the Persian Gulf to with troops in Iraq. She personalizes each letter she writes.
In September, Wales started writing to "any service member," and service members started writing her back. She also got names and addresses from friends whose children were in prison or on probation, and service members serving in the gulf that were printed in the Lawrence Daily Journal-World.
A few months ago, she sent more than 300 letters and handwritten post cards to the troops in one week.
"I told them in the first letters I sent that it didn't matter if they wrote me back or not," she said. "I
told them to write their families before they write me.
"If they don't write back, I just go ahead and write them anyway."
Wales, who spends about $120 a month on postage, said she also regularly wrote to more than 40 shut-ins.
"I started writing after I hurt my back in 1976," she said. "If I didn't find something to occupy my time, I would have gone crazy."
In December, Wales saw Stuff Sgt. Bill Matthews' name in the newspapers and on television.
Matthias said it was good to receive word from a Lawrence resident. Matthias was born and reared in Lawrence and had been in the gulf Coast Awareness.
"She was one of my regular pen pals," he said. "It really picked up my morale when I got letters from her."
Matthias said he and Wales exchanged letters more than a dozen times before Matthias came back to Lawrence and met his pen pal at a coming home party.
"She was exactly like I expected from her letters," he said. "She's a smile."
Timothy Miller/KANSAN
Rheba Wales, Lawrence resident, displays a jacket with more than 100 buttons honoring troops serving in the Persian Gulf.
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