Mrs. Mary Burkett

(Burkett Archive)

Mary divorced her G.I. husband after fifteen years, but she has married a second time and still lives in the U.S.A..  Leo Burkett is sitting at the back of the photo.

During the Depression, he had joined the Civilian Conservation Corps, part of Roosevelt's New Deal to cure unemployment, and still remains an active veteran to this day.

He and Mary had a daughter, Wendy, who visits her Tewkesbury grandmother, but she stayed here to marry and her daughter, Mary’s granddaughter, was a pupil at Tewkesbury School.