Posts Tagged Weerts Funeral Home
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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PUBLISHER’S CORNER
By David W. Deuth, CFSP President, Weerts Funeral Home Flooding and heat waves and road construction, oh my! The summer of 2011 has indeed been memorable in many respects. If you ask most Midwesterners about the “dog days of summer,” most would probably say that this occurs in late July...
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A New Normal
By David W. Deuth, CFSP President, Weerts Funeral Home Most are probably familiar with the common saying that goes something like this: “The only two certain things in life are death and taxes.” Indeed, among both generations and centuries, it seems that we can scarcely do more about on...
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“Love is patient, love is kind”
By David W. Deuth, CFSP President, Weerts Funeral Home These familiar words from I Corinthians often become the scriptural centerpiece of weddings. And while these words make a pleasing backdrop to the joyous ceremony of marriage, most married couples would agree that it’s far harder to live ...
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It’s Got Me Thinking…
By David W. Deuth, CFSP President, Weerts Funeral Home Well, it’s finally happened. Our baby girl has graduated from high school. And it’s got me thinking . . . It’s got me thinking about how tender and fragile life begins. Only 18 years ago we held Maddy in our arms as a teen...
