Published January 14, 2021 at 2:20 PM CST
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Leona Augustine was living on a farm near Washington, Missouri, when she wrote “I’m Dreaming of No One But You."
Jacob Luecke’s grandmother died when he was 2 years old. He was aware that Leona Augustine grew up on a farm outside Washington, Mo., but he never knew much about her early life beyond that.
Then he stumbled on some sheet music, tucked away with some old family papers. It was sheet music for a song Augustine had written all the way back in 1942. It was titled “I’m Dreaming of No One But You,” and Augustine wrote it after the man she would later marry enlisted in the Army and left Missouri for an Army base in Miami.