Life Stories and Eulogies
When this particular round of Life Stories writing comes to an end in another month or so, I'll likely type the stories that these women have been writing. (I've been encouraging them to post-script details to what they have written and not to worry if the individual stories are not in chronological order. We'll tidy it up at the conclusion of the project, I promised.) But I'll encourage each of them to include samples of her handwriting in her final work.
Mary Ann (Beckman) Rasche Sept. 4, 1926-April 13, 2024 Funeral, April 17, 2024 On the first Saturday of September in 1926, in a two-story white house on a farm on what today is the Jasper-Dubois Road,
I've had a couple of Life Stories experiences lately in which the person I am writing about is deceased. Their stories are being told by loved ones. The first story is about a fun-loving guy who died
A few weeks ago I spent a Sunday afternoon with a group of four siblings and some of their spouses and children. The gathering was in memory of another sibling, who died early last year. Two months af