Music & Memories

Broadcast for Sunday March 10, 2024

Covering the deaths from March 10-16, 2024

Good morning and welcome to Music & Memories.

This is Linda Sue, and I am the grief specialist at Patton-Schad Funeral Home. It is my pleasure to bring you this week’s program on KASM. This program is our way of reaching out to help families deal with those difficult days surrounding the death anniversary of a loved one.

To quote Alan D. Wolfelt: The experience of grief is only felt when someone of great value, purpose and meaning has been a part of your life. To mourn your loss is required if you are to befriend the love you have granted. To honor your grief is not self-destructive or harmful, it is life-sustaining and life-giving, and it ultimately leads you back to love again. In this way, love is both the cause and the antidote.

It is important that you understand that grief and mourning are not the same thing. Grief is the constellation of thoughts and feelings we have when someone we love dies. We can think of it as the container. It holds our thoughts, feelings and images of our experience when someone we love dies. In other words, grief is the internal meaning given to the experience of loss. Mourning is when we take the grief we have on the inside and express it on the outside of ourselves.

This program is dedicated to the memory of:

Bernard “Bernie” Liestman who died March 6, 1990

Michael Miller who died March 9, 1980

Allen Bellmont who died March 10, 2022

Betty Holm who died March 10, 2022

Viola Bischof who died March 10, 2005

Marilyn Wolbeck who died March 10, 1996

Henry Sand who died March 10, 1977

Irene Kohorst who died March 10, 1947

Arlene Arnzen who died March 11, 2023

Lucille “Sue” Neal who died March 11, 2019

Judy Schmidtz who died March 11, 2018

Leona Schneider who died March 11, 2017

Sylvester Jonas who died March 11, 1984

Judith “Judy” Vogt who died March 12, 2023

Fran Blommel who died March 12, 2023

Ruth Bue who died March 12, 2021

Shirley Theis who died March 12, 1999

Christine Stadherr who died March 12, 1992

Norbert “Norb” Gramke who died March 13, 2022

Alver Mehr who died March 13, 2007

Dennis Larson who died March 14, 2016

Lambert Nathe who died March 14, 2010

LeRoy Spychala who died March 14, 2007

George Langenberger who died March 14, 1987

Renee Muehlenhardt who died March 15, 2023

Robert “Bob” Brenny who died March 15, 2018

Anna Butkowski who died March 15, 1983

Benedict “Ben” Rothstein who died March 16, 2012

Virgil Rachemacher who died March 16, 2005

LaVern Fuechtmann who died March 16, 2001

Norbert “Norby” Messer who died March 16, 1981

We encourage you as family and friends to show that you care by remembering these families, this week, with a phone call, a card, or a visit.