Martha E. Burley Leichter Travers died on May 12, 1945. She was buried in the Green Lawn Cemetery, Columbus, Ohio. She was in a Rest Home at the time of death and had been there awhile. Her death certificate states she died of "Advance Senile and Arteriionclosis" and was being treated for this for five years prior to death. She was 78. She had divorced her first husband George S. Leichter around 1910. Their youngest child, George, Jr., born in 1908. Her second husband was John Travers. His nickname was Jack. He died on May 2, 1945 and was buried in Eastlawn Cemetery, Columbus, Ohio. He didn't adopt "Little" George even though he went by the name Travers. He just assumed he was John Travers son.