I love everything about this story. I just hope that someone was kind enough and loving enough to do the same for Jeanne. She could be with both her Bob and her Ducks.
My mother was a member of the Daisy Ducks. She was a mild-mannered woman, mostly - but not when it came to the Ducks. She cared a lot and in later years would scream at the TV along with my Pop. They are both gone now, and cremated, their ashes nestled in a memorial garden on the grounds of their church in Wilsonville.
John, your story brought back immediately to my Mom’s story. She was a huge Braves fan and I am a Giants fan. I told her once I got hired after college we would go watch the Giants and Braves play a game. She died suddenly in 1996 a week after I got hired a job. My mother wanted to be cremated and I brought her and five family friends to San Francisco and watched Giants and Braves play in Candlestick Park. She was wrapped in a Braves blanket and we had seats in the last row of the 100 level. She was perched on the seat back and leaning against the retaining well. Ryan Klesko hit a grand slam but the Giants ended up winning 7-5. Later I spread her ashes in Ocean Park, OR where she got to have a great view at my wedding in 2001.
Lovely story; Bob is not alone. Our oldest daughter Cathryn, a lifetime Duck (English, '80) left us early four years ago. Her beloved sorority sisters took care of the deed, and our guess is she wasn't the first to receive such love from that beautiful group of women.
Rumor has it that friends of someone I know who was a die hard Duck fan and avid golfer scattered a few of his ashes in the park area across from the south entrance at Autzen and near the 16th green at Eastmoreland. I'm sure some Saturdays in the fall he's not resting too peacefully 😊
This practise is bereft of ethics. The reason that you have to deposit cremains on football fields surreptitiously is because, no doubt, some football players would object to coming into contact with burial grounds. Also, cremains would pose a maintenance hassle with artificial turf. (This activity was recounted by the former UOregon alumni director, Dan Rodriguez in 2011.)
OK.......should I routinely have a box of Kleenex on hand? Lovely, John!
I love everything about this story. I just hope that someone was kind enough and loving enough to do the same for Jeanne. She could be with both her Bob and her Ducks.
Great story. My family spreads ashes. I can be anywhere near the Pacific and feel close to loved ones. Same ocean, may just be a different beach.
Good story, John. Thank you. 😄👊
My mother was a member of the Daisy Ducks. She was a mild-mannered woman, mostly - but not when it came to the Ducks. She cared a lot and in later years would scream at the TV along with my Pop. They are both gone now, and cremated, their ashes nestled in a memorial garden on the grounds of their church in Wilsonville.
John, your story brought back immediately to my Mom’s story. She was a huge Braves fan and I am a Giants fan. I told her once I got hired after college we would go watch the Giants and Braves play a game. She died suddenly in 1996 a week after I got hired a job. My mother wanted to be cremated and I brought her and five family friends to San Francisco and watched Giants and Braves play in Candlestick Park. She was wrapped in a Braves blanket and we had seats in the last row of the 100 level. She was perched on the seat back and leaning against the retaining well. Ryan Klesko hit a grand slam but the Giants ended up winning 7-5. Later I spread her ashes in Ocean Park, OR where she got to have a great view at my wedding in 2001.
Thank you for the story. It reads like a story from my favorite journalist, Tom Hallman Jr.
A slightly creepy, yet endearing story.
Lovely story; Bob is not alone. Our oldest daughter Cathryn, a lifetime Duck (English, '80) left us early four years ago. Her beloved sorority sisters took care of the deed, and our guess is she wasn't the first to receive such love from that beautiful group of women.
Rumor has it that friends of someone I know who was a die hard Duck fan and avid golfer scattered a few of his ashes in the park area across from the south entrance at Autzen and near the 16th green at Eastmoreland. I'm sure some Saturdays in the fall he's not resting too peacefully 😊
I assume they weren't Catholic! :)
Never have written to a journalist before but I absolutely love your writing!..Miss u at the Oregonian but am enjoying this site a lot!
This practise is bereft of ethics. The reason that you have to deposit cremains on football fields surreptitiously is because, no doubt, some football players would object to coming into contact with burial grounds. Also, cremains would pose a maintenance hassle with artificial turf. (This activity was recounted by the former UOregon alumni director, Dan Rodriguez in 2011.)
Thank you John, very touching story.
John, some of my dad's ashes are on the 40-yard line (east) where I used to kickoff for games in the original Autzen--good column, best, Ken Woody
This was beautiful. Wow