Among the victims of the Kentucky River flooding is a Woodford County woman who was already struggling with a great loss. Stephanie Thompson was in Bowling Green for a church conference Saturday when her landlord called to say the riverside home she was renting was full of water. The news came nearly five months after the death of her husband, Mark, a Navy veteran. She said the flood likely destroyed many treasured items.
“His medals, his love cards, everything that – I mean, you build a life in 28 years, and it's all gone in an instant. Like his guns he collected, his things that he had bought, you know, appliances. And I can't even think of everything.”
Thompson said she’s staying with a church friend for now, waiting on the VA for benefits owed and wondering what remains in the riverside home where Mark spent his last days.
“They gave him two weeks, and he wanted to come home, so he came home on hospice, and it was about two weeks and he was gone.”
Thompson met with a representative of the American Red Cross Monday and a Versailles church is helping her. For a woman who’s lost so much, its name seems perfect: New Hope Baptist Church.
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