Lorain Mail Clerk Finds Own G. I. Check – January 1950

Here’s a nice little “slice of life" article that ran on the front page of the Lorain Journal back on January 18, 1950 – 70 years ago this month.

Vintage postcard of Lorain Post Office

It’s the story of Laurie Miller, a mail clerk at the Lorain Post Office and how he found his own G. I. check in the mail he was sorting.

Laurie Miller’s check was for $165 (which is worth about $1,750 today, according to one of those online inflation calculators).

Anyway, Mr. Miller passed away in August 1977. According to his obituary in the Chronicle-Telegram, “he retired in 1968 from the U. S. Post Office where he had been employed as an accountant. He was a Navy veteran of World War II and a member of First United Methodist Church, Lorain, and the Lorain VFW.” 

At the time of his passing, his address was the same as it was when he appeared in the Journal photograph.

Here’s a photo of Mr. Miller in his Naval uniform.

All in all, a nice story of a Lorainite who served his country as a soldier and as a postal employee too.

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Reading this story reminded me of when the Lorain Post Office on Broadway was still open. Remember going in there and seeing the clerk behind the tiny window, and the wall of ancient post office boxes?

Also, I realized when I wrote the last line of Mr. Miller’s story that my older brother Ken’s career fits that same description.