The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-10-10
Ben Burdick, of Kenosha,
Learns of Death of Wife
as Bells Toll Requiem
In Michigan Village.
SERVED AS ARMY NURSE
Mrs. Burdick Working Under Maiden
Name Stricken With Influenza While
Caring for Soldier Friends In
Base Hospital at Camp Grant

The tragedy of war time sacrifice,
the desire Of a woman to do her full
part In making the world decent place
to live in is reflected in the heart
loneliness of Ben Burdick, 500 Elk
change street war worker In Ken
osha who is trying to forget today.
Tuesday afternoon his wife Mayne
Wright Burdick was laid at rest over
IN the little village cemetery at Gay
lord, Mich. The husband did not hear
of her death m an army hospital at
Camp Grant until the time when the
church bells were tolling a requiem for
her over at Gaylord.
As Mayme Wright she died at the
army hospital on last Saturday morn
ing and as Mayme Wright she was
sent back to the old home of her par
ents. Over at the hospital they did
not know Of Burdick and the parents
Of the young woman were seeking to
locate him in Detroit not knowing that
he had left that city for Kenosha.
Then a letter was forwarded to the
stricken home from the hospital at
Rockford and Burdick got the news
of his wife 8 death.
When the insistent call came for men
and women both to do their full part
in the war work Mr.. and Mrs. Burdick
had a happy little home at Gaylord.
They had no children and the wife
insisted that they both should do their
part TO aid the nation at war. Bud.
dick went to Detroit and went into a
war factory. Mrs. Burdick was a
graduate nurse and she knew that the
army regulations would bar q married
woman from entering the hospitals so
she made her application as Wayne
Wright and as Wayne Wright she was
accepted. Over at the hospital they
new that she was nightly interested
in Ben = and that she got letters from
him nearly every day. Ten days ago
she was taken i'll with Spanish in
fuenza. Burdick was over to Rock
ford to see her and the superintendent
of the hospital had told him that she
would keep him advised as to her CON
dition. Last Saturday morning, just
at dawn Mrs. Burdick made the
supreme sacrifice of an enlisted woman
IN the nation s service. Burdick cal
led as usual on Saturday afternoon and
the Superintendent not knowing of
the death Of Mayme Wright told him
that she was getting along nicely. But
the Sunday letter he had expected
from her failed to arrive and on Mon
day afternoon Burdiek called the hos
pital again. Miss Wright died early
Saturday morning was the answer
he received. Then he found that in
keeping with the provisions of her APP
plication for service as a nurse the re-
mains had been sent to the old home
of her parents at Gaylord, Michigan.
Burdick managed to get in touch with
Gaylord and learned that the funeral
services were held on Tuesday after.
noon. He went over to Camp Grant
today and later he is going over to
stand by the grave of the little woman
who called him husband and who gave
up much that she might serve her eoun-
TRY.
Burdick has been working in Ken
osha for the last two months. He
came here after he had left the hospi-
tai at Rochester, MINI, following an
operation and following an order from
his physician to seek work in one of
the lake shore cities. Mrs. Burdick
had been with him in Kenosha on sew
eral occasions.