The ordinary routine would soon become the talk of this Northern Kentucky congregation.
Mary s departure revealed she had been concealing a picture of a Navy sailor under her base. No one knew who the sailor was, when it was placed there, or if he survived.
“We don’t know if it was last year or years ago,” a church bulletin read. “Does anyone know who this is?”
A parishioner, Kenny Bodner, then called his longtime friends Marietta, 67 and Tom Echlin, 66.
“Marietta, you won’t believe what happened.
Growing up
The Echlins moved from Michigan to Kentucky when Marietta was six months pregnant in the early 80s.
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