Keeping Memories Alive
In Waldwick, a family shares a tender moment to celebrate a loved one they’ve lost.
The holidays are a time for family, so it’s no surprise that we remember loved ones who have passed. For Stella Apo Osae-Twum of Waldwick and her family, this Thanksgiving was bittersweet—it fell on her mother’s birthday. “She passed a year ago,” Osae-Twum says, “so my family decided to take some flowers to her grave.” But her three sons, who are triplets, wanted to do more than that. “It was all their idea. They said, ‘No, we need a balloon,’” she recalls. The boys released it and sang “Happy Birthday” to their grandmother as it floated off into the clouds. Osae-Twum says, “It was a hard day. But we wanted to celebrate her the same way we would have if she were here.” She also says, “If we continue to live in the legacy of the people we’ve lost, then they really do live on in us.”
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