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52 Ancestors-Week 39: Should Be a Movie—Lorene Hork Traveled the World with Three Chums

This is my third year working on this year-long prompt, hosted by Amy Johnson Crow. I will write each week in one of my two blogs, either Mam-ma’s Southern Family or at My Trails into the Past. I have enjoyed writing about my children’s ancestors in new and exciting ways.

In 1952, my paternal aunt, Lorene E. Hork, applied to work for the U.S. Army in Japan. She wrote home often telling of her adventures and these letters were saved by the family and put together in a binder. I wrote about her adventures in Japan here.

Where her year was up, she resigned, and with three girl friends (Anne Ankers, Mitzi Seale, and Donna Oehm) that she met there in Tokyo, embarked on the start of a around the world adventure. I have written several posts about their adventures:

    Travel--Lorene’s First Leg

    Dear Diary—Taipei, a Continuation of Lorene Hork’s Trip

    Transportation: Lorene Traveled Around the World Part III

    Travel: Lorene Traveled Around the World Part IV

The next stop will be Cairo and from there, they would go to Rome, then Paris, and finally sail home on the Queen Mary. I plan to write more posts about the details of the trip. As time went on, they were running out of money, and she was pretty lucky to get the spot on the Queen Mary.

Surely the adventure of four young women traveling on their own in the 1950s would make a wonderful movie. They enjoyed the sights, meeting young men along the way, and sampling local food and drink.


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