Labor of love and duty at St. Louis County records center after 1973 fire
Debra Griffith didn't
know where to turn when her father, a Korean War veteran
with a failing heart, asked to be buried at a military cemetery
near his boyhood home in Indiana.
With her parents long divorced and the family scattered across
the country, Griffith had no clue where to find the records
attesting to Lewis Lower's military service — or whether they even
existed.