This folder contains letters regarding the birth of James M. Ryan, Christmas dinner menu (1943), letters to the Ryans from other crew member families of the "Lonesome Lady" regarding their status as POW's.
This folder contains letters to James M. Ryan's parents with prayers, correspondence between mothers and wives of the other missing "Lonesome Lady" crew members, sympathy cards. Many letters between The Ryan's and the Pedersons.
This folder contains letters from James M. Ryan to Francis J. Ryan, letters from James M. Ryan to his parents, letters from the Pedersons regarding the death of their son, letters from other families regarding their boys.
Contains records and ledgers on services provided at the Carey Hand Funeral Home. Materials include memoranda regarding the death and burial of deceased individuals, registers of the death, burial and payment information, plots in the Greenwood and Palm cemeteries, financial records, cremation records, ambulance service records, vault storage records, and Central Florida Veterans and Orlando Airbase Servicemen's death, burial, and military information. The records are particularly useful in historical and genealogical research on the Orlando and Central Florida area from 1891 to 1955.