I am from Hixton, Wisconsin. My professional work was in clinical social work and social psychology. I also enjoyed being a bartender and working in a hardware store. I have been a trustee on the board of a local cemetery for nearly 30 years.

I have a special interest in cemeteries of Jackson County, Wisconsin, as many relatives, friends and neighbors I have known are interred there. Some of the oldest cemeteries are destitute, and some, like the Shady Glen Cemetery, have been destroyed or removed. They still deserve to be remembered.

When we find ancestors, and save their stories and connections, we not only find out more about who we are, we begin to save our own stories too. There is something both fleeting and eternal about every human experience.

I have entered family data, and information on some families of spouses, as well as that of some friends and neighbors both here and on wikitree.com. I have submitted thousands of edits to other Find A Grave members, as I encounter details not included on existing memorials.

Among others, I have focused on the graves of young children in Jackson County and nearby counties who were victims of diphtheria and other childhood diseases in the late 1800s. Some of the parents were unable to provide them headstones. Nonetheless, they deserve mention in Find A Grave.

I commend the cemetery walkers who make our research easier with their work entering many memorials, sometimes thousands of them. Thank you.

It's good that the creator of a memorial is always acknowledged, no matter who currently manages it. We will all one day no longer be able to do this work, and therefore need to have some concern about how management is passed on.

If you have a research interest in any memorial I manage and would like to add details and connections beyond the simple edits available, I will transfer management to you upon request.

"Memorize the bathwater, memorize the air

There'll come a time I'll wanna know I was here

Names on the doorframes, inches and ages

Handprints in concrete at the softest stages"

- from Weird Goodbyes by the National with Bon Iver