The couple on the bench
I added the photo of Mom and Dad with the couple on the bench in their front yard to this memorial site because it depicts not only their togetherness when she was still alive, but also my own memories of the little ceramic figurine statue we had in the house while I was growing up. This was a figurine of a boy and a girl sitting on a bench together, and as a child I always loved playing with it. About a year ago, Mom let me take the figurine home with me as a keepsake. What I didn't know until then was that her Grandma Mavity had given her the figurine just before she and Dad married telling her that the boy on the bench was Wayne and the girl Patti. Now in my own home I see that young couple sitting on the bench every day several times a day and it always makes my heart smile thinking of the two of them.