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From the Heart
This evening I'm thinking should I write a beautiful poem, but as I contemplated, I thought no, I will share with you from my heart. I'm sure you have all heard of Susan Boyle, the talented international singer that appeared on Britains Got Talent.. and sang the song " I Dreamed a Dream" and has made her dreams come true. Well, it's been a dream of mine to be able to carry on the legacy of my Loved Ones through my business Warm Gestures LLC. From the loss of my mother when I was 20 years old, she passed away on my brother's wedding day. I asked him "How do you get through every anniversary? He said " Mom would want me to be happy" How true I thought!
During the years I've lost 3 daughters, a husband, and my father. I feel blessed to carry on their legacy by touching peoples lives through cemetery care, funeral home care, landscaping, taking care of plants, planting flowers, making grave blankets and shipping them all over the USA., including Arlington National Cemetery.
This past year, I received my first international order for a grave blanket from Switzerland . Wow.. I can follow my dreams! To make a difference in the Love and Passion that I have in having my Cemetery care and Landscaping business, it shows that God does work in strange ways.
I want to share with you a true story about a little girl that died from head trauma. I never saw the little girl. I was planting flowers at a funeral home and helping an employee carry a plant in on a dolly. I said you don't have a little one here do you? The gentleman said "the funeral will be on Monday. I said not the little girl that was dead on arrival at the hospital, he said yes. I noticed as I looked in the room, there were no flowers, and I cried. I thought to myself, she has to have flowers.
So when I had finished my work, I went and had a casket spray made for this little girl I had never seen. It turned out beautiful. After all, I knew what shade of pink I wanted since I have lost 3 daughters myself.
So the casket spray ended up being pink and yellow carnations, with baby's breath and a pink teddy bear holding 3 pink sweetheart roses in the hands. I took the spray to the funeral home. A week went by and I wanted to pay my respects to this little girl I had never seen. I shared with the manager about the flowers and with shock and tears he said those were the only flowers she received. The teddy bear was still there too. So I paid my respects and said my prayers and said Thank God, and said to myself, God works in strange ways. Every year since her tragic death, she gets a plant from me on Memorial Day and a Grave Blanket too. From My Garden to Her Garden.
New This Year
New this year are Pet Grave Blankets. There is information on them below. Grave Blanket prices are staying the same. Why? Warm Gestures LLC wants your business and guarantees the beauty and freshness of your blanket. I also want to service your loved one whether it be a child or an adult.
My experience and knowledge go beyond just the planting or placement of a plant. As an Advanced Master Gardener, with over 26 years in just making grave blankets, I take pride; give love and passion into each site. Losing three daughters, my mother, father and a husband, I know the pain is indescribable and it feels like a piece of you goes with each Loved One. I, as a mother, losing a child was the worst nightmare I could ever have. I know now I gave them every chance possible to live. One daughter, Rachael, was a patient at All Children’s Hospital. They kept me updated on her condition every step of the way. My life became a roller coaster but everyday became a ray of sunshine, a ray of hope. Rachael had open heart surgery and she had made such progress and she was to be coming out of ICU the next morning. Then the storm came, one of the worst nightmares of my life, a phone call. Rachael had taken a turn for the worse. Rachael died from Cardiac Arrest. What a fighter, what an Angel… Yes, she is joined by 2 other Sister’s a Grandma and Grandpa’s. Yes, the pain and suffering I have endured as a parent, as a child and as a wife is with me everyday and with their memories I know that no one can take those away.
I often think of the legacy I’m able to carry on, helping others at their loved ones grave site. Bringing comfort knowing I care in making sure they are cared for and respected whether they live near by or in another State. I have shipped Grave Blankets to Arlington National Cemetery and yet have taken them to local sites personally; my heart is in each and everyone. Yes, I will help you in your darkest hours. In remembrance of my loved ones, I have donated money to All Children’s Hospital, (Children’s Miracle Network) where they have read my story, to promote donations. I have been a blood donor in memory; I have given to the VA hospitals, as another commitment in showing I care.
Being an Advanced Master Gardener through Leila Arboretum has allowed me to grow as I have moderated the Master Gardener program, landscaping and perennial production workshop. I’m also re certified each year and by doing so enriching my own life. I reside in Olivet, Michigan. My loved ones are in Ingham County, where I grew up. As an Advanced Master Gardener, I have done garden projects at local nursing home, schools, college, funeral homes and cemeteries. Flowers from my home, have served at Weddings, Funerals and Church alters. I do landscaping for businesses, homes and new construction.
I do accept credit cards
through Pay Pal
Grave Blankets of any size will be $50.00 with your choice of colored flowers and cordinating bow with pinecones. This includes the anchors.
New:Gas notice It's become necessary with the price of gas that their be a minium of a $10.00 delivery fee which will include the placement of the blanket. Warm Gestures LLC. delivers in Calhoun, Eaton, Ingham, and surrounding area.. Warm Gestures LLC. is willing to meet you half way.. You are able to pick the Grave Blanket up, delivered or shipped. Warm Gestures LLC. is here to meet your needs for your Loved Ones.
My Services
Complete Gardening Care For Your Loved Ones At Our Cemeteries I will do gardening services at an affordable cost, be it weekly, monthly, season, or for any occasion. I'm a certified Advanced Master Gardener and have the expertise to make a difference.
Please note that these prices are for services, not for the items themselves.
My services are available in Ingham and Calhoun and Eaton Counties and I will consider the surrounding areas. Services include:
- Landscaping, residental or commerical
- Cleaning around Headstone
- Planting flowers (flowers are a taxable item and not included in the service fee)
- Watering
- Weeding
- Hanging Baskets (hanging baskets are a taxable item and not included in the service fee)
- Planters (planters are a taxable item and not included in the service fee)
- Artificial Flowers (artificial flowers are a taxable item and not included in the service fee)
- Grave Blankets - child's or adults (grave blankets are a taxable item and not included in the service fee) Grave Blankets can be shipped anywhere in the United States using Fed Ex.
- Wreaths (wreaths are a taxable item and not included in the service fee)
- Holidays
- Birthdays
- Anniversaries
- Planting shrubs (shrubs are a taxable item and not included in the service fee)
Pet Grave Blankets
New this year beginning November 1st, will be grave blankets for Pets. Yes, our faithful friends and companions. Those too we cherish and love. This past year, I made one for our family’s faithful friend and companion of 14 years. Yes, it brought comfort too. I will carry the small and large sizes and will ship those as well in the USA.
From my Garden to Your Garden
Kathy Gardener
Owner
Warm Gestures LLC.
269-274-3266
What are Grave Blankets?
Pictures below
Beautiful Grave Blankets - Child's or Adults at an affordable price and will ship anywhere in the US.
Warm Gestures Grave Blankets are put out for the winter and they are left until March, depending on where you live. An example: For My Loved Ones they are allowed November 1st until March 1st.
What is important is that the Grave Blanket is anchored down, (the anchors are included) before the ground freezes.
These keep the blanket in place so they don’t tip.
Next they come with a beautiful bow and flowers and pinecones. They can serve your Loved Ones for
- Thanksgiving
- Christmas
- Valentines Day
- Birthday
- Anniversary
And give your Loved Ones Grave Site color all winter and it keeps the snow off the grave (depending on where you live) as well.
Then your family can personalize them. For example, a person may like birds, or animals, angels, put a letter in a baggy and place it on, you can put on a cross, snowman, Santa’s, teddy bears and the list goes on and on.
Call Warm Gestures LLC and Kathy, with 26 yrs of experience in making them, for her Loved One's. Kathy will be happy to make your Loved One's Grave Blanket in the color you choose and ship it to you or even take it to a nearby cemetery. These can be picked up or delivered to your home either by Kathy (depending on distance) or shipped Fed-ex.
Warm Gestures LLC gladly accepts pay pal. My heart is in my work, and I'm here to help you, so don't hesitate to call or email, as I will answer them all within 24 hrs. Many times you are able to reach me by phone and I have them ready to ship the same day as well.
Warm Gestures LLC Grave Blankets are made out of fresh scotch pines that are the full length of the Loved One's Grave Site from the Head Stone to the end.
Above are some Grave Blanket pictures you may choose from that Kathy has made in the past. New last year, I had royal blue with a matching bow that many people thought was beautiful. I also have them made with a plaid bow.
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Grave Blankets Any Size: $50.00
I do accept credit cards
through Pay Pal
Beautiful Grave Blankets Childs or Adults at a Reasonable price, call or email Warm Gestures
New services promise online life after death
Taken from this CNN website
Your husband, an avid gamer and techie, dies of a heart attack, leaving his vast online life -- one you don't know much about -- in limbo.
Eternal Space lets loved ones create customized online gravesites and memorial pages.
Eternal Space lets loved ones create customized online gravesites and memorial pages.
His accounts, to which you don't know the passwords, go idle. His e-mails go unanswered, his online multiplayer games go on without him and bidders on his eBay items don't know why they can't get an answer from the seller.
Web site domains that he has purchased, some of which are now worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, will expire, and you may never know.
It's a scenario that's becoming more likely as we spend more of our lives online. And it's raising more questions about what happens to our online lives after we log off for the final time.
The answer, until recently, was nothing.
But now, as online usage increases and social-media sites soar in popularity, more companies are popping up to try and fill that void created in your digital life after death.
Jeremy Toeman, founder of the site Legacy Locker, recognized that when he was on a plane and wondered what would happen to his online life if it crashed. While his will leaves everything to his wife, including all of his digital assets, Toeman realized how difficult it would be for her to access his accounts.
Don't Miss "My GoDaddy account would belong to her, but it doesn't solve the practical reality of how she would get access to it," he said. He experienced a similar scenario after his grandmother died, and he tried to get the password for her e-mail account -- only to give up because of the hassle.
So Toeman built his company to change all that. Legacy Locker allows users to set up a kind of online will, with beneficiaries that would receive the customer's account information and passwords after they die.
"We know it's a hard thing to think about -- to get people to face mortality. We know it's kind of morbid, but for those who live their entire lives online, it's also very real."
A Legacy Locker account costs $29.99 a year. Users can set up their accounts at www.legacylocker.com to specify who gets access to their posthumous online information, along with "legacy letters," or messages, that can be sent to loved ones.
If someone contacts Legacy Locker to report a client's death, the service will send the customer four e-mails in 48 hours. If there's no response, Legacy Locker will then contact the people the client listed as verifiers in the event of his or her death. Even then, the service would not release digital assets without examining a copy of the customer's death certificate, Toeman said.
Eddie Lopez is the kind of tech-savvy guy for which a service such as Legacy Locker was made. The St. Paul , Minnesota , man has three online banking accounts, a PayPal account, domain names, Web-hosting accounts, multiple e-mail addresses and many social-networking accounts.
"I do think this is something people should be really considering these days," Lopez told CNN when asked about services such as Legacy Locker. He wants to hire a service to handle his digital assets but is concerned about privacy.
"Although I'm glad there's people breaking ground in this area, I don't think I would jump at the first opportunity to sign up," Lopez said. "My concerns are turning over such an exhaustive list of user names and passwords to a single business. That's one-stop shopping for any hacker to get access to just about every detail of my life."
Lopez would prefer to entrust half of his digital-security information to a service such as Legacy Locker and the other half to family members, so that each side's information would be useless without the other's.
"I hope Legacy Locker and similar services can address these privacy-security concerns with some real-world solutions," he said. "I just don't feel comfortable turning over my digital life -- built over 15 years -- to a kind promise."
Legacy Locker isn't the only new company helping techies plan for death in the digital age.
AssetLock (formerly YouDeparted.com) offers a "secure safe deposit box" for digital copies of documents, wishes, letters and e-mails. Deathswitch and Slightly Morbid also offer similar services in a variety of prices and packages, depending on how many accounts are involved.
Not all of these services deal with online assets. There's also a growing trend towards giving all aspects of death -- the grieving process, the funeral, the memorial and even the grave site -- a digital makeover.
FindaGrave.com claims to have cemetery records for 32 million people in its searchable database, while EternalSpace.com offers a new spin on the traditional grave site by offering virtual memorial pages full of videos, pictures and tributes.
On Eternal Space, loved ones can choose from different headstones and bucolic landscape backgrounds -- the mountain lake is a popular option -- to create a customized online grave site. Loved ones can add "tribute gifts" such as roses, candles, stuffed animals and other items, while mourners can access photos and videos in a "Memory Book" and leave remembrances of their own.
Jay Goss, president of Eternal Space president, is trying to bring the funeral experience to anyone who can access the Web. In that way, he hopes to provide a gathering place, and a voice, for mourners who may not be able to attend the real-life memorial service.
"It'd be the equivalent of a funeral where everyone can attend and everyone can spend 30 minutes behind the podium," Goss said. "It gives everyone a chance to put a 360-degree wrapper on the life the person lived and celebrate that life from how every person knew them."
Eternal Space's virtual memorial sites are currently only being offered through select funeral homes, cemeteries and crematoriums. Goss' hope is that the site will help allow the deceased's memory to be "eternally" passed on.
"All of these stories and videos are being left, in essence, to this Eternal Space Web site so that everyone can share, not just that day, not the days after, but the weeks after and years after," he said.
Some funeral-industry professionals believe these online memorials and virtual grave sites provide a valuable service.
"Assuming the site is handled with respect, virtual memorials respond to a basic human need to remember our deceased family, friends and colleagues," said Robert M. Fells, general counsel for the International Cemetery, Cremation and Funeral Association.
"Based on our members' feedback, I'd have to say that virtual memorial sites are gaining popularity with the public as a very practical alternative to being present at the grave site," he added. "There's nothing 'weird' about them as far as we have seen."
"There are funeral homes out there that will help families create virtual memorials, but ... we've also seen Facebook and MySpace profiles of deceased persons being turned into memorials," agreed Jessica Koth, spokesperson for the National Funeral Directors Association. "Consumers have become increasingly comfortable with expressing their grief online."
"While not a replacement for a funeral, online memorialization can help people work through their grief after the funeral," she added. "We've all become accustomed to communicating and expressing ourselves electronically -- via e-mail, Facebook, Twitter. Expressing one's grief online is an outgrowth of what's happening in other areas of our lives."
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