Mother’s Day roses arrive for 31st year.
Her secret admirer didn’t forget. For the 31st consecutive year Mrs.
May Robinson of 431 Hurlingame Avenue, Redwood City, received a Mother’s Day
gift of a dozen long-stemmed roses from someone whose identity she’s never
known. The “Forever Roses” come each year since her son, Bernard, a
gunner on a Navy torpedo bomber, was killed during a mission over Guadalcanal
in 1943. He was 21.
Bernard was Mrs. Robinson’s only son, and the news of his
death at the height of the fighting in the pacific during World War II was so
great that she lost her sight and has been blind since. The flowers started arriving the year after he
died.
As usual, the roses that arrived last weekend had no card,
and as usual the roses were delivered by Edward Dick, owner of Old Mill Flower
Shop, who insists he knows nothing of the sender other than he’s from out of
town. Mrs. Robinson speculates the
sender might be one of her son’s Navy friends, but admits that’s only
conjecture.
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