Paetznick-Garness Funeral Chapel

05/25/2026

05/19/2026

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The truth about grief is that the hardest moments are often the quiet ones no one else notices.

Not the funeral.

Not the first holiday.

Not the moments people expect to be hard and show up for.

The quiet ones...

The Sunday morning when you open the fridge and see the thing they always ate and have to close it again and stand there for a second before you can move.

The song that comes on in the car and you have to pull over.

The moment someone says their name in a completely different context and your whole body reacts before your brain does.

The Sunday morning that used to belong to both of you.

The inside joke that has no one to tell it to anymore.

The laugh that comes out and then catches in your throat because they would have loved that.

Nobody sees those moments.

Nobody knows to ask about them.

Nobody sends flowers for a Sunday morning at the fridge.

But those are the ones that live deepest.

The quiet ambushes.

The ones that find you when your guard is down and the world isn't watching.

Those are the ones that remind you most of what you had.

And most of what you lost.

And if you're carrying a quiet moment right now....

I see it.

Even if no one else does.

05/02/2026

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01/20/2026

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01/12/2026

Just a quick note…..all online condolences have to be approved by me before they are posted. Sometimes I get the email a few hours later and see a second post (which I delete). Please know this is only out of respect for the family and online trolls that have nothing better to do with their time. Thank you all for using the site. If you ever have questions, please reach out to me. Thank you, Andrea

10/31/2025

These items were left behind after Mick Sippel’s funeral yesterday. Please call if they belong to you!