Mark And Anne
A Story
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Doctor Marke Burke and his nurse wife Anne, heed the encouragement of her former employer to move from a large town to a small one in the hill country of Texas. He is a OB/GYN doctor and after the death of the doctor who encouraged them to move into the area, remains as the only such doctor covering a full county with three small towns. They do much to improve the medical facilities in the area, building a hospital and clinics so that the residents do not have to be taken to other cities, none of which are nearby. Then suddenly, Anne, his wife of many years, is in an accident in which she is killed. He cannot cope with the disaster and is stricken with moments of temporary amnesia when he goes about looking for his now deceased wife. He revolves between these vague moments and reality. A young graduate student who needs to write a human interest story finds one in the lives of MARK and ANNE PRC
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"Have you seen my wife Anne?" was the melancholy question Doctor Mark Burke would ask as he walked about town looking for his now deceased wife. The shock of her death had been too much for him to understand and he just assumed that she was lost and needed him to help her home. His persistence intrigued a persom who was taking a course in Creative Writing and decided to make their story hers. As she goes throuh the lives of the Doctor and his wife Anne she found the fine attributes of a long and faithfull marriage. It's a love story, the full body of which come to a poignant end. A pleasant story of MARK and ANNE.
About the Author
Born September 17, 1923
Education includes:
St. Thomas College (High School), Houston, Texas 1940
St. Mary's University San Antonio, Texas 1940-1941
U.C.L.A., Los Angeles, California 1947-1948
University of Southern California, Los Angeles 1948-1951
Military
United States Marine Corps 1941-1945
Action at Midway, Tulagi and Guadalcanal
Japanese Interpretor and Translator
Honorably discharged October 12, 1945
Publications: Several books and articles
Personal:
Wife, Nancy, since 1951
Three daughters
EIght grandchildren, four greatgrandchildren
Currently: Retired and writing books and articles, for as long as it is possible