Posts Tagged Weerts Funeral Home
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On Gratitude
David W. Deuth, CFSP President, Weerts Funeral Home Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others. - Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) There’s a lot to like about Cicero’s insight. First, because he lived a really long time ago, we begin to appreciate the treasure in the...
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Memories of an Honor Flight
David W. Deuth, CFSP President, Weerts Funeral Home It was meant to honor them. Their service. Their valor. Their sacrifice. And the freedom they fought to protect. Nearly 200 of us – both veterans and guardians – boarded a chartered 737 jet early Saturday morning, October 10, 2009 at the...
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Fall Housecleaning
David W. Deuth, CFSP President, Weerts Funeral Home My mom likes a clean house. As kids, my brother and I learned early on that the chores had to be done every Saturday morning if we were to have any hope whatsoever of hanging out with our friends later in the day. And if the whole family w...
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Remembering Jim Graham
David W. Deuth, CFSP President, Weerts Funeral Home The first time I visited with Jim Graham, he was wearing a skirt. It was a few years ago now. Blarney Bash. Rogalski Center. Arriving on the St. Ambrose University campus, the haunting drone of the bagpipe could be heard through the crisp March...
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Hometown Reflections
David W. Deuth, CFSP President, Weerts Funeral Home As the calendar flips to July this year, I can’t help but think back to one of the true gems of my childhood: the annual “Song of Hiawatha” pageant, a theatrical masterpiece based upon Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem by the same name,...
