Long lost love letters make special delivery<br/><span class='hl2'>Antique shop find helps reunite couple after more than 60 years.</span>

STILLWATER — A Stillwater woman is trying to make sure a collection of about 150 World War II-era letters reach their destination, even if they're about 60 years late.

Shawn Irons said she stumbled upon the letters at a Bartlesville antique shop almost a year ago and never imagined the sender or recipient was still alive.

The letters all were sent to Alice Van Gundy, a U.S. Navy nurse, between 1942 and 1947 and a majority were signed "Love, Bob E.”

The letters spelled out a love story between the nurse and a former Marine, but it was a story for which the ending never was written.

Irons, who dabbles in history and genealogy, tried for almost a year to locate Van Gundy before getting a big break last month that led to a reunion of the long-lost lovers on Valentine's Day.

Irons sent an article about Van Gundy to a newspaper in Winfield, Kan., where she once lived.

A reader provided Irons with Van Gundy's married name and current address.

Alice Parrish, who now lives in Florida, told Irons she had no idea how the letters wound up in an antique shop and never knew what became of the Marine who used to write her.

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