In Memory of Rev. and Mrs. V.O. Kyle by Kay Kyle Wilson

My daddy V.O. Kyle served as a medic in the South Pacific, most notably on Guam, Tinian, and Guadalcanal. He rarely talked about it except to say how much he missed my mother. I have a gorgeous... hand made knife that his good friend George Madding made for him to take with him. 

My mother was a librarian at Camp Maxey during the war and remembered hosting German POWs at their home on Lamar Avenue for Sunday dinner. She said that it was interesting and that they were very young and homesick. 

My ex husband David Kelso's family would not have been in Paris had it not been for Camp Maxey. Jimmy Kelso was a young lieutenant from Alabama who trained there and brought his wife to live there while he was overseas. When the war was over they stayed in Paris. Jimmy Kelso served as a battery commander with George Patton in Germany.