It’s the end of the month and the end of the year, so we pause from our daily photos for a duo of sunset photos to sit back and recall our loved ones and friends that have gone on before us. Today we remember:

We'd like to remember our dear friend Betty Erne who
left this Earth for her eternal home yesterday. She
is now rejoicing, free of pain and distress, and for
that we are thankful.

Remembering my Dad who left this world on Christmas morning, a Thursday, December 25, 2003.
Condolences to all.

Remembering our parents Norman and Helen Pooley, Ed and Sophie Kuusisto, Aunt Lyle Pooley, our sister in law and dear friend Phyllis Kuusisto, Karen Kuusisto, Janet Trasti, Selma Kuusisto, Auntie Eva Lahti, our good buddy Nitz Kumpula, our nephews “The Chief” Churchill and Charlie Churchill, our sweet niece Rosie Churchill, Our niece Bailey Hartmann, our brother in law and friend Wayne Hartmann our sister and best friend Flo Hartmann and our dear sweet baby girls Annie and Molly Kuusisto. We love and miss you all so much.

Alex, that's tough, sending you a big bro bear hug my friend!! I'm sure you have great memories like I do, and I guess on Christmas... well, that's and automatic pass to the promise land isn't it!!

UC

My boxer dog Duke died December 30, 2000. Play and romp
around at the Rainbow Bridge.

Dominic Zubiena passed on Christmas Day. I think
UC's right...that gives you an automatic pass. God
Bless all....

David Cayer from Escanaba. A very talented
gentleman.

This page is hard to come and look at because
it's got my brother and my cousin back to back
on the listing of people who passed. It was a
tough year with my brother going through so many
health problems from kidney disease & prostate
cancer. Then summer of 2018 he started with
dementia. That's so hard to deal with. The
phone calls were heartbreaking. Calling me
saying he was in Copper Harbor, or he was in
Freda, and could I come pick him up because he
has no way to get home. Totally heartbreaking
to go through. Then they discovered cancer in
his throat, traveling to his lungs, hip, sinuses
and finally the brain. He passed away on
December 26. We just had his funeral/memorial
last week when we were all together in Lake
Linden. It was a tough year of worrying about
him and what was going to happen next. Now he's
at peace but it's so hard to see his name typed
up there. My cousin Steve was a year younger
than my brother and he's had MS for years so you
knew it was coming, but still so hard on his
family.

Condolences to everybody else who lost loved
ones in December. It's never a good time, but
around the holidays it's worse.