Naperville artist turns father’s World War II letters into art

Naperville artist turns father’s World War II letters into art

“Every time I saw those letters, just out of the corner of my eye, I kind of had this little nagging feeling that I wanted to do something with them,” said Marilyn Dale, artist of “Between the Lines.” For 25 years, Naperville artist Marilyn Dale stored over 500 letters that her father, Chester Mackowiak, sent to her mother, Irene Golata, during World War II. Mackowiak was an Army infantryman serving in the Pacific Theater from 1944 to 1945. The …