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Wife's love captured in long-forgotten time capsule
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A time capsule was returned to a widower that was hidden in 1966 by his late wife hidden by a construction crew, bringing back a series of loving memories of their marriage, the British newspaper the Daily Mail reported.
Contractor John Murray, working with a construction crew on a North Phoenix four-bedroom home built in the 1950s, discovered the partially opened capsule, according to the report.
'It was on the floor over there with a pile of insulation,' Murray told KPNX. 'We’ve done hundreds of houses but never found anything like this.'
Inside the partially-opened capsule, there was a family photo and an open letter to future readers living in a different era, the report said.
The letter was written by 33-year-old Betty Klug, the station reports, and describes the social and political issues of the 1960s.
'The Vietnam War is still going on,' it reads. 'Racial situation very serious. Boys have long hair resulting from the Beatle craze.'
Another part reads 'Lyndon Johnson is president. We are hopeful that the Republicans will be in office when this time capsule is recovered.'
'Barry Goldwater (Republican candidate for president) lives on top of the hill with the big T.V. antenna. (N.W. bedroom view.)'
Bruce Klug, Betty's husband, was found by the station living in Scottsdale and now 79 years old.
Klug did not know that his wife buried the time capsule -- and that the letter she included in it was written on his birthday.
Tragically, ten years after the capsule was hidden, Betty Klug died in a car crash.
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