Because of Jimmy's care in keeping a carbon copy of each letter he wrote, we have a fairly detailed history of Tedi and Jimmy's moods and movements from 1942 to 1963 through the letters he exchanged with his Aunt Eva George (nee Eva Gwendoline Stumpf, a sister of Jimmy's father Craig Edgar Stumpf). Apparently, Craig had helped Eva attend the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where she met and married Henry George, and Eva tried to repay his kindness by supplying continuing financial assistance throughout the period 1944-1963 and perhaps even before. A name which arises frequently in the Henry/Eva George chronology is that of Ora Enterline, a member of the Stumpf family somewhat removed and who never married, but who was close to Eva as a companion throughout her life, who also lived with Jim's Aunt Violet in Alturas, Florida during part of the year, and who also was of great assistance to the Strashun side of the family during their last days in Los Angeles in the late 1950s and early 1960s.. Dates of interest are -- Craig Edgar Stumpf (1870-1924), Eva Gwendoline Stumpf (George) (1887-1963), Henry George (1883-1962), and Ora Enterline (1892-?).
The sequence of Tedi and Jimmy's moves around the country is roughly as follows -- Los Angeles after their marriage in 1936 to 1948, Santa Fe from 1948 to 1950, Lubbock from 1950 to 1951, Marietta from 1951 to 1954 and Atlanta from 1954 on. Jimmy spent a portion of the years 1942 and 1943 working as a surveyor on the Pan American Highway in Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Guatemala, and Panama as an employee of the Army Corps of Engineers.
The Florida orange grove discussed in the first two letters was an investment made through yet another Stumpf sibling, Violet Matilda Stumpf (1872-1939), who married John Miller Ward Rankin (1861-1935) and settled in the area around Alturas and Bartow, Florida, an area in central Florida roughly halfway between Tampa and Orlando (sorry, Julie and Russ, Jimmy and Tedi sold it in the mid-1940's ...)