Anne Faye

Nearly two years ago, I came across this stone in the St. Rose Cemetery in Chicopee, MA. I blogged about it here: http://annefaye.blogspot.com/2012/08/a-tombstone-with-story.html and resolved that someday I would find out more about it. I then ordered some photos through the mail and ended up getting 300 copies of this photo by mistake: http://annefaye.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-tomstone-saga-continues.html which truly cemented the need to find out more. I've had some "extra" time on my hands recently and was able to make good on that promise. I contacted the parish affiliated with the cemetery and a very helpful woman dug out "a book that looks like it could contain magic potions" and found the burial record. The young man buried here is Clarence Brodeur. He was buried on April 25, 1935. I was then able to look on Ancestry.com and discover more about him and his family. (I felt a bit like I was stalking a dead man). He was born in Webster, MA, the second ...

I wrote before about finding this tombstone and being intrigued by it. I admit, in the intervening time, I haven't done anything about. It's kind of just been sitting in the back of my mind, along with the million other items that are collecting dust in there. A few times a year, I submit my photos to an online service to order prints. I had one such order come in this week. I didn't open the box until Saturday night when I sat down to sort the photos and prepare to put them in albums/scrapbooks. When I opened the box, I discovered that (in error) I had been sent 300 copies of this one photo! I'm starting to wonder if the universe (God) is trying to tell me something . . .