Remembering Rodney Burket, Longtime Herald Employee

E. Rodney Burket of Martinsburg passed away on May 26, 2019. He had worked for 35 years in the Herald's back shop as a printer, while Dick Loose operated the Linotype.

Besides the job of running printing presses and other back-shop equipment (such as the binder and cutter), he helped with the newspaper layout on Tuesdays and Wednesdays and with unloading and loading newspapers on Wednesday afternoon.

Rodney had been there for some time when I arrived in 1968 and probably retired when he was 65. (I'm 83 and he was two years older). He worked at the shoe factory for a while before starting a...