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A story behind the obituary - Martha Lena Burdette Rou JIM saw the obituary - maybe this one: Martha Burdette Rou, 92, Adair Co., KY (1921-2013) or another - he knows the news so often before we do, and remember a touching drama from World War II, and has compiled this "Story Behind the Obituary," - CM By JIM "Born, to the wife of S.M. Burdette, on Tuesday night, the 12th inst., a daughter. The mother and baby are doing finely." (The Adair County News, Tuesday, July 19, 1921.) On Saturday, the 5th day of July, 1941, Miss Martha Lena Burdette of Columbia became the bride of Mr. Louis Arnold Rich, a native of Clay County, Tenn., a resident of Monroe County, Ky., and a former student of Lindsey Wilson College. The ceremony took place "at the home of the bride's aunt, Mrs. R.B. Patton, and Mr. Patton, 2008 Kenilworth Court, in Louisville" and and the bride was exactly a week short of her 20th birthday. By September of the 1942, the young couple resided in Nashville but come mid-April, 1943, Mr. Rich was inducted into the Army and sent to Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, for basic training. He was assigned to the Engineering Corps and the June 30 edition of the News reported that "Pvt. Louis A. Rich...is now located at Pullman, Washington, where he will attend the Washington State College for a nine months period as a cadet under the Army Specialized Training Program." Sadly, that was the last truly good news about Pvt. Rich as the next (July 7th) edition of the paper stated he was in a hospital in Pullman, Washington, critically ill with pneumonia and that his wife and parents had rushed via airplane to be by his side. Two weeks later came news he had been transferred to the Baxter General Hospital in Spokane, where his condition was noted as "slightly improved." (Baxter General, finished only a few months earlier, was a sprawling hospital built expressly to treat the sick and wounded of the armed forces.) By the forepart of August, Louis was improved enough for Martha and his mother to return home, and in October, 1943, he (along with about 200 other patients) were transferred from Baxter General in Spokane to Winters General Hospital, Topeka, Kansas. At some point between then and late November, he underwent a "serious operation," and the December 1st News reported his condition as "much improved." By this time, Martha was living and working in Topeka to be close to her husband. No additional items about the young soldier appeared in the local paper until August, 1944 when his obituary appeared, the lead sentence stating simply, "Pvt. Louis Arnold Rich, of Tompkinsville, Ky., died in Winter General Hospital, Topeka, Kan., on Thursday, August 3, after having been ill for more than a year." His passing occurred three years and three weeks after he and Martha were wed; she was only twenty -three years old. In 1947, Martha was graduated from the University of Kentucky and in September of that year, she departed Columbia to take charge of the Commercial Department of the Stearns, Kentucky, High School. This story was posted on 2013-12-13 03:56:28
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