Posts Tagged Memorial Gardens

  • Our pets are part of the family Our pets are part of the family

    By David W. Deuth, CFSP President, Weerts Funeral Home While I’ve heard from many of you since I began writing monthly articles eight or so years ago, there has been no greater reader response than when I shared about the death of our good friend “PT.” The phone calls, emails and even sy...

  • We can learn a lot from a tree We can learn a lot from a tree

    By David W. Deuth, CFSP President, Weerts Funeral Home Amid the monuments and the towering mature trees along a pleasant knoll at Oakdale Memorial Gardens, I had the privilege to share a few words with the family at a recent graveside service. The setting was beautiful. Nearby, an age-old...

  • Our Bix Lives! Our Bix Lives!

    By Deb Williams Oakdale Memorial Gardens Blaring Band: Our Bix Lives! These words were the headlines in The Times Democrat on Friday August 6, 1971. It was the 40th anniversary of the death of Leon Bismark “Bix” Beiderbecke – and the birth of the Bix Jazz Festival. The Times article ...