The dwindling ever emerging family –

The much loved faces & places of yesteryear…

As their legacies & descendants join the march

of the rights of passage

old homesteds are made new with the ever changing

faces & phases of family…

How does one convey, how does one perceive…

One day there will be few who remember you,

Fewer still who knew you…

& as many as did, that many more who

never will – save a story or two along the way,

the intrigue of a photo preserved that illusive day…

brought to remembrance in times of wonder

& shifting sands.  (Nan ~2018)

 As we reflect on those who had their part in bringing us to where we are today; might a memorial include the LIFE it was intended to portray? Find-A-Grave avails some wonderful tools to accomplish memorials that call to honor, and to reminisce;....There are those who may indeed have led a life of solitaire;...Yet even they had a beginning as well as an end to their days. The life is gone but the memorial lives on...Each with a story to tell...Could we but tell it..

If you have additional contributions to any of these contributions, Please share them that piece by piece their stories might unfold...

• Please, when contacting me include the # of the memorial in question. Thank you.

quote:

I dreamed death came to me one night & heavens gates flew open wide.

With kindly grace St. Peter came & ushered me inside.

There to my astonishment were friends I'd known on earth, some I had labeled as unfit & some of little worth. Indignant words flew to my lips, words I could not set free, for every face showed stunned surprise -

No one expected me.

(James G. Patterson - St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada)