Posts Tagged Weerts Funeral Home

  • Remember Well Remember Well

    By David W. Deuth, CFSP President, Weerts Funeral Home I think about all my grandparents more often than most, I imagine. And I’m grateful to them – and for them. It was late in February, 1988. We were in college. As mid-term exams were pressing on my schedule, I received a phone call fr...

  • Have you made your resolutions for the New Year? Have you made your resolutions for the New Year?

    By David W. Deuth, CFSP President, Weerts Funeral Home Most people, it seems, resolve to do something new or different or better as the calendar flips over to January. And it’s a pretty well-established fact that most resolutions, for one reason or another, aren’t kept throughout the year. ...

  • Love Lights a Candle Love Lights a Candle

    By David W. Deuth, CFSP President, Weerts Funeral Home Linda often has a fragrant candle burning in our home. Wispy spring and summery scents enjoyed for the past several months have been recently replaced by the warm and inviting scents of autumn. As the snow falls to stay, the aromas of everg...

  • The Holiday Season! – PUBLISHER’S CORNER The Holiday Season! – PUBLISHER’S CORNER

    By Dee Deuth, CSA Weerts Funeral Home Most of us prefer to live in the present, enjoy each day. Me, too, usually. However, as the holidays approach, I allow myself the privilege of some reminiscing; bring up some pleasant childhood holidays past. Among my fondest is the memory of Christmas ...

  • Thanksgiving Soup Thanksgiving Soup

    By David W. Deuth, CFSP President, Weerts Funeral Home To be totally honest, I don’t remember much about kindergarten. But, I do remember my teacher. I remember that we got to take naps. And, I remember that we did something special for Thanksgiving. I suppose we made some turkeys by outl...

  • Wisdom and The Chessboard Wisdom and The Chessboard

    By David W. Deuth, CFSP President, Weerts Funeral Home There was a time during junior high when I played my share of chess. Several of my friends, I discovered, were pretty good chess players, and my intrigue for the game intensified as I watched them maneuver – and out-maneuver – one anoth...

  • Remembering 9/11 Remembering 9/11

    By Dee Deuth, CSA Weerts Funeral Home As we pause and reflect upon Patriot Day this year, we do so on the 10th anniversary of that awful day that forever altered American - indeed, world - history. In 2008, I took my family to New York to “pay our respects,” if you will, at Ground Zero. Fol...

  • Will You Help “Fern?” Will You Help “Fern?”

    By Dee Deuth, CSA Weerts Funeral Home Please join me and others in the Quad-City Area as we “Walk to End Alzheimer’s” on September 10, 2011. There it was again, starting so very softly. That sound of a songbird, escalating to the harsh sound of a crow. Fern was coming back down the hal...

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