Steve Townsend remembers when his father answered a late-night knock at their door to find an Elizabethtown police officer telling him that his wife, Townsend’s mother, had been in a car wreck.
The officer told them they needed to get to Hardin Memorial Hospital as soon as they could.
By the time the then 11-year-old Steve Townsend and his father had sped to the hospital, his mother was being transferred to Louisville. She died four days later.
“It’s one of those things that makes you who you are,” he said.
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