Just after midnight on Christmas Eve in 1945, Jennie Sodder awoke to the smell of smoke. She quickly discovered that the Fayetteville, West Virginia, home she shared with her husband, George, and nine ...
On Christmas Eve 1945, a fire destroyed the Sodder family home in Fayetteville, West Virginia. George and Jennie Sodder escaped with four of their children, but five others were never found. No ...
Other than music that plays from a loudspeaker mounted on a storefront in the center of town, the streets of Fayetteville, W.V., are quiet as Christmas Eve approaches. Inside, they talk of presents ...