After 64 years, a mystery is laid to rest

Mike Barber
Seattle Post Intelligencer
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Sixty-four years after he disappeared near Mount Baker while flying home on leave from battling Japanese warplanes in the Aleutian Islands, Lt. Kenneth Ambrose was laid to rest Friday morning.
The 8-week-old daughter the 24-year-old Army aviator was flying home to see, now Kathleen Edwards of Blue Bell, Pa., attended his memorial service, with full military honors, at Philadelphia National Cemetery on Friday.
His widow, Marguerite Ambrose Crowe, remarried and went on with her life. She died Easter afternoon in a nursing home near Norristown, Pa., at 86. Her daughter had been planning to tell her that remains found with Ambrose's shattered P-38 fighter plane in the Pasayten Wilderness east of Mount Baker in 2003 were identified as his.
Lt. Kenneth Ambrose disappeared in his P-38 on Nov. 28, 1942, near Mount Baker. Ambrose was missing for more than six decades.
Her mother, who suffered from Parkinson's disease, long ago made peace with Ambrose's disappearance and moved on, Edwards said.
May 20, 2006