People

British Man and American Woman, Both 100, Have Been Pen Pals Since 1938: 'She's Always Been There'

Geoff Banks and Celesta Byrne have been writing to each other for more than eight decades — but they now also use "this new thing called Zoom" to stay on touch Maria Pasquini is the senior news editor ...
Cleveland.com

Pen pals since 1969, Middleburg Heights woman to meet longtime friend from England

MIDDLEBURG HEIGHTS, Ohio -- A friendship that began more than 50 years ago through a Girl Scout pen pal program is finally coming face to face this week. Valerie Scafaria of Middleburg Heights has ...
Yahoo

Queen Elizabeth pen pal: The queen wrote to a North Dakota woman every year on their shared birthday

Queen Elizabeth II touched many people throughout her lifetime, including one woman thousands of miles away who shared her birthday. Like the queen, Adele Hankey, 96, of Park River, North Dakota, was ...
1011 Now

Woman in Beatrice reconnects with pen pal of 65 years from Maui

Linda Lawler looks forward to Felyazon Viernes’s cheerful greetings, her handwriting sweeping across the pages with tall letters. The 75-year-old pen pals send each other notes and gifts from their ...
Daily Journal

Lifelong pals: Greenwood woman meets pen pal in person after nearly 60 years

Jayne Sowers, left, and Jillian Dunbar sit together for tea in a mall in Bunbury, Australia, during a visit together in June. The pair were matched as pen pals in 1965 and remained in contact ...
WAVE3

Kentucky woman meets her pen pal more than four decades later

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - Did you ever have a pen pal? A local woman got a pen pal when she was in elementary school. For decades they stayed connected. Now, more than 40 years later, something amazing ...
BND

French woman visits Highland pen pal after exchanging letters for 46 years

They live 4,500 miles apart, speak different languages and rarely see each other, but they feel like sisters. That’s because Mary Wilson, 61, of Highland, and her pen pal, Annie Almoguera, 62, of ...
LAist

Better Late Than Never. Canadian Woman Finally Gets A Pen Pal

Eight-year-old Nyima Mitchell found a message in a bottle in his backyard in Nova Scotia. The message simply asking for a pen pal was dated August 12, 1995, signed by a 14-year-old girl named Nellie ...
New York Post

Australian woman finds love with her American prisoner pen pal

FIFO worker, Savannah Phyffer, has had her fair share of unsuccessful relationships over the years while residing in her hometown of Perth, Western Australia. We’ve all heard the old saying “You’ll ...
People

11-Year-Olds from Across the World Became Pen Pals in the ‘70s. 51 Years Later, They Meet for the First Time (Exclusive)

What began as a childhood connection turned into a 51-year friendship and a highly anticipated meeting Courtesy Kimberly Johnson Debbie Houschild from Oceanport, N.J., and Jane Bean from Sittingbourne ...
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First Lady's Pen Pal takes White House tour

LEE CO., GA (WALB) - Three years ago we did a story on little Cemirra Thomas after she received a letter from first lady Michelle Obama. Now she is nine years old and just got back from a visit to the ...
Today

Queen Elizabeth wrote to a North Dakota woman every year on their shared birthday

Queen Elizabeth II touched many people throughout her lifetime, including one woman thousands of miles away who shared her birthday. Like the queen, Adele Hankey, 96, of Park River, North Dakota, was ...