Another hero gone

From my embedded cousin in Arkansas, this:
Archie York, 84, and his wife, Katherine, 68, died Tuesday when a tornado struck their mobile home in the Ozark foothills south of tiny Cleveland, Arkansas. York was talking to his son, Ricky York, who lived next door and wanted his father and stepmother to go to his brick house during the storm. The tornado hit before the conversation ended.
For three and a half years, during WW2, a young Archie York was beaten with bamboo sticks by the Japanese while a POW in the Philippines, said another son, Tommy York of Pottsville. His father was in the military twenty years, first in the Army Air Corps, then the Army, and then the Air Force. After the war, York married and later became a preacher. After his first wife, Annie Frances, died several years ago, he met Katherine during a revival he held in Missouri.
When Melissa Smith learned that a tornado had killed her grandfather, she searched the rubble of what once was his home until she found his dress military jacket from World War II and his medals. “He wanted to be buried in that,” she said of the jacket Archie York had worn proudly over the years. Smith pointed to York’s Purple Heart, Bronze Star and Prisoner of War medal, along with the ribbons from his time overseas. “He’d made that very well-known.”