A Love Story . . . .
Jim and Dorothy Chiles
Married: December 22, 1945
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Lt. James Olin Chiles |
Dorothy Ruth Lindenmayer Chiles |
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Navy Fighter Pilot |
Wife, Mother, Teacher |
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January 24, 1924 -- July 28, 1949 |
August 31, 1924 -- August 2, 2001 |
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Buried in Arlington -- August 2 |
Buried beside her husband |
Lt. James Olin Chiles and Dorothy Chiles
Their Marriage was blessed with God's Love and Guidance.
Each Night Jim and Dorothy Chiles read their Bible and prayed together.
(After his death, the "Upper Room" Devotion book featured Jim Chiles in one of their devotions.)
On April 4, 1947, Jim and Dorothy welcome their first "Gift from God",
their baby daughter, Charlene Frances Chiles.
"Contentment"
A Wonderful Happy Family
Bootsie, Diana Mae (six months old), Dorothy, Charlene Frances (two years old), Jim Chiles
"Whole family in Goddard Park, May 8, 1949"
Goddard Park is located in Warwick, Rhode Island,
near the Quonset Point Naval Air Station in Quonset Point, Rhode Island,
where Jim Chiles was stationed for a while, and where Diana Chiles was born.
Lt. James Olin Chiles died of polio on July 28, 1949.
His story was published in Newsweek Magazine.
(Click on above pictures to enlarge)
This is an excerpt from a letter written from
Lieutenant James Olin Chiles to his wife, Dorothy,
while he was serving as a fighter pilot
on the Navy Carrier, the U.S.S. Midway.
Jim died of Polio on July 28, 1949.
Let me paint for us a few cozy pictures of our future.
Us on a Sunday afternoon drive in our Cadillac in 1957
with Charlene (age 10), a boy 8, a girl 6, and a little boy 4.
A family reunion in 1987 with our children
and ten grandchildren.
The year of 2000, both of us looking back
on a life well done in the eyes of God
with our descendants in all four corners of the earth,
us ready to answer the final call and happy to go.
Now how’s that? I hope you like it.
One last word on this subject.
Do not despair for the uncertainty of the future.
It has looked black before.
Someone has always come through,
and if trouble develops, why can’t it be us.
If the end of the world itself comes,
and judgment day, then so much the better,
for you & I, and our children
will have gone to a better place anyhow.
The insurance I have in which I place my stock
is the assurance that I’ll go to heaven
come what may, war with Russia or what-not.
With faith in God and this assurance, how can we lose?
We can’t.
I love you darling, and I’m looking forward to the night
when you and I kneel down beside the bed together
and pray together that God’s will be done
as we go to work for Charlene’s little brother or sister.
I love you,
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Click here to read the actual letter of Lt. James Olin Chiles to his wife, Dorothy.
Note: There are two times that my father documented that he prayed for me:
1. At my conception
2. On his death bed.
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Telegram sent while Jim was on the USS Midway.
Lt. James Olin Chiles, buried at Arlington National Cemetery with full military honors,
Buried on August 2, 1949
Click on the above picture to read the
written by Lt James Olin Chiles to his wife, Dorothy,
while he was on the Navy Carrier,
the USS Midway .
Click on the above picture to read the Article:
"Love That is Tender Leaves a
Strong Message in Room 844"
Peabody Hotel, Memphis, Tennessee
This article was printed in the Memphis Press-Scimitar,
on December 22, 1950,
on what would have been
Jim and Dorothy Chiles' Fifth Wedding Anniversary.
Click on the above picture to view the page devoted to our sweet mother,
Dorothy Ruth Lindenmayer Chiles
Click on the above picture to read our family's history with our church, Bellevue.
