•October 31, 2018•

Editors Note: Evelyn Burtcheard wrote to clarifiy some points concerning the article about her in the Oct. 24, 2018 edition of the News Progress.
I had three younger brothers. The two youngest were six and eight years old when Mom passed away. My dad promised my mother while she was in the hospital (and had been told she was not going to live) that he would keep all four of us children together.
I was not there. My promise was to my mother (on one of the few visits home from the hospital) that I would take care of the two little ones as she had cared for me.     Login or Subscribe to read the rest of this story.