Owens Memorial Services

09/03/2025

ALEXANDRIA, IN – Robert John "Jack" Fisher, 94, of Alexandria, Indiana, passed away peacefully at home on September 3, 2025, surrounded by his loving family.

Jack was born on June 12, 1931, in Alexandria, Indiana, to Siebert and Blanche Fisher., Jack graduated from Dover High School in Dover...

09/03/2025

Here is today's thought to encourage you on your grief journey...

Mom, I whisper your name at night, 🌙
Hoping it reaches your wings in flight. 🦋
I love you more than words can show,
A bond eternal the soul will know. 💞

Your wisdom rests in pages worn, 📖
Your love, a light through nights forlorn.
The butterfly pauses, tender, still,
A symbol of love that time can’t kill. 🌸

I miss you, Mom, with every breath,
My heart aches with your quiet death. 💔
No distance, no silence, no fleeting years,
Can take away these endless tears. 😢

I’ll carry your love, strong and true,
In everything I say, in all I do.
Though heaven holds you far apart,
You live forever within my heart. ❤️

— Silent Tears For You

09/02/2025

Here is today's thought to encourage you on your grief journey...

If the pain from grief feels overwhelming, remember it is born from love — and love is something that never leaves you. Be gentle with yourself in the spaces it aches most.

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09/01/2025

09/01/2025

Here is today's thought to encourage you on your grief journey...

Those That Drift Away

When you lose someone you love, sometimes you suffer the double loneliness of that loss.

Not only do you miss the person you lost, but you also miss some of the people who withdraw from your life because of it.

Many of your friends, and even family in some cases, aren't prepared for sharing your sadness and pain. They're often not capable of staying with you in the darkness. They tell you they don’t know what to say.

So they say nothing.

Here's the thing...saying nothing is better than some of the unintentional things they say that hurt, Things like, “There's a reason for everything”, or “I know how you feel”.

The reality is some people just find your grief too uncomfortable to be around. They want to help but it makes them anxious. So they drift away for fear of doing or saying something wrong.

It often becomes you, the griever, that's comforting the supporter by saying things like, “I’m fine, don’t worry”, “I’ll be okay, don’t feel bad.” You begin to minimize your own pain and sadness to take the burden off everyone else.

You're now faced with finding new friends that understand your loneliness and are willing to sit with you in your sorrow. The problem is you don’t always have the energy or desire to do that in your grief.

So you become even more isolated and alone.

If your friends could only understand that all you need is for them to not fear your grief and run away, but to hold your hand and be present.

Sometimes there's no need for words. No need for fear. You just need to know you're not alone.

If you can think of someone that’s drifted away...consider sending them this blog!

Gary Sturgis - Surviving Grief

08/29/2025

Here is today's thought to encourage you on your grief journey...

Grief

08/28/2025

Dear friends
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08/28/2025

Here is today's thought to encourage you on your grief journey...

Grief is a language you do not learn until you have no choice. There is no classroom for it, no manual, no helpful phrases to practice ahead of time. One day, you are speaking it without ever wanting to learn, and it takes more out of you than you thought words could.
It is a language of looks that last a little too long, the small pause before answering a question, the way your voice catcheseven on subjects you thought were safe. It is the endless ache that hides under every “I’m fine.”
Other grievers understand it without you having to explain. You can meet their eyes and feel the shared weight. You can speak without words, just in the way you sit there together, knowing you both carry a missing piece the rest of the world cannot see. With them, you do not have to soften your tone or tidy up your sentences. You can speak your loss exactly as it is, and they will not flinch.
To everyone else, the words are different. They might try, they might even care deeply, but they do not know the dialect of absence. And it is not their fault. After all, we did not speak it either until grief made itself known to us. So you keep most of it to yourself… until you find another who speaks it too. Then, it is a relief you did not know you were waiting for.

08/27/2025

Here is today's thought to encourage you on your grief journey...

After losing my spouse, I figured dating again would be...

Well...I didn’t actually figure it at all.

For a while, the thought belonged in the same category as running a 5K marathon barefoot or voluntarily going back to middle school.

Absolutely not happening!

But eventually, I decided to give it a try.

Spoiler Alert: Dating after loss is not like ‘riding a bike.’

It’s like trying to ride a bike.

But the bike is on fire.

While you’re also on fire.

And the bike belongs to someone else who’s judging you.

The first hurdle was all the apps. (Honestly, I didn’t even know what an ‘app’ was.)

Every profile sounds the same. “Love to laugh. Enjoys sunsets. Looking for my special partner in life.”

Great. I love to laugh too, but I should probably let you know upfront that my humor includes snarky inappropriate jokes about how life sucks and the occasional conversation with my late spouse’s photo.

I wasn’t even sure how to fit all that into my “About Me” without making people run.

Then there’s the small talk. “So, what do you do for fun?”

Well, I can tell you what I used to do for fun, but now my hobbies include crying in my car and explaining to my dog why we can’t just stay in bed all day.

Not exactly first-date icebreaker material.

And the whole sharing your past thing? That’s a tightrope walk over a pit of social awkwardness.

Mention your late spouse too soon and you risk scaring someone off. Wait too long and they think you’re hiding something. The truth is, it’s like bringing a very polite ghost on all your dates. They don’t participate in the conversation, but you feel them there anyway.

There are also moments where I swear the universe was trolling me.

Like meeting someone who says, “I know exactly how you feel, my goldfish died last year.”

Um…cool story.

But here’s the unexpectedly good part…dating after loss can make you bold.

When you’ve already survived the absolute worst thing you could imagine, a bad date is just mildly inconvenient. I walked out of one mid-sentence because life is too short to listen to someone explain how they make false teeth in their basement for 45 minutes.

(True story!)

So yeah…it’s messy.

It’s awkward.

There will be moments when you laugh, cry, or both into your margarita.

But there will also be moments when you realize that your heart didn’t get the memo about staying broken forever.

And that…as terrifying as it is…can be kind of wonderful.

Gary Sturgis - Surviving Grief

08/26/2025

Here is today's thought to encourage you on your grief journey...

-even when we cannot see it.

For those that know the pain of losing a mother, and relate to my words, my book is now available— “Now That She’s Gone: A Daughter’s Reflections on Loss, Love & and Mother’s Legacy” available at all major retailers. https://hopeandharshrealities.com/book/

My hope is that you find it beautiful and comforting—inside and out.

08/25/2025

Here is today's thought to encourage you on your grief journey...

Grief drifts softly, like mist in the air 🌫️
A silent burden that we all must bear 💔
It isn’t a weakness, nor is it disease 🌱
But a sorrowful wind that won’t quickly ease 🍂

It whispers through trees, in the forest so deep 🌲
In the still of the night, when memories creep 🌌
It aches in the heart, it trembles the soul 🙏
A reminder that love made your spirit whole ❤️

The price of devotion, the cost of embrace 🌹
Is the tears that forever carve lines on the face 😢
But healing begins when we let sorrow flow 🌊
And honor the love we never let go 🕊️

The cure is to grieve, to feel every part ✨
For grief is the proof of a wide-open heart 💞

— Tears of Memory

08/23/2025

ALEXANDRIA, IN – John S. Haron, 94, left this earthly home on Friday, August 22, 2025, following an extended illness. He passed away from his residence in the same room he was born in 1931 while surrounded by his loving family

John was born on March 2, 1931, in Alexandria to Joseph and Ida (...