:::Welcome to Grief Support Services:::

Julie, Mommy used to love to cook with your grandma. Well, this picture is the time I made my first cake. We got distracted and it burned, but we sure had fun making it. So don’t worry if all your dishes are successful. Always remember to have fun in the “doing.” And oh yeah, buy yourself a timer so you won’t end up with burned food. Here are some of grandma and my favorite secret recipes so you can enjoy them when you grow up and have children of your own someday.

A Place Where You Can Help The People You Love And Care About To:

Connect With You

Remember You

Hear Your Voice

See Your Face

Know You Better

Learn From You

Share Your Life, Your History…Dreams…Pain…Passions… Philosophy…Hopes…. Wishes… Values… Secrets…Wisdom… Words of Encouragement and Messages of Love

Keep Your Memory Alive For Future Generations

Be With You, Whenever They Need Or Want You…Anytime…Anywhere In The World

How comforting it will be to others if you let them hold on to your most important messages. Most of us want to complete our lives without regrets. Now you can be remembered and thought about in the way YOU want, because after all, you have created this special place yourself. A place where they can turn to you, time and time again…always.

So, how do we stay connected to those we cherish most?

This is easily assured by creating a Legacy of the Heart, using the tools provided on this page. It can be as simple as a photograph of some treasured place you have enjoyed together, a song, a poem that recalls the thread of connection. Include photos or other images (even pieces in your own handwriting, certificates, news clippings or awards, etc.), poems and writings, audio clips of your voice, music, artwork and much more. And don’t worry, if you don’t know what to say, or how to say it, we have a Well of Resources you can draw from and use. You decide what you want to share, and we make it possible.

Please feel free to use these reflections and images, taking them whole or using them as a springboard for your own expressions. Perhaps you have difficulty finding the proper words even in the best of times. Writing can be a challenge at times for even the most schooled professionals. As this site is largely about sharing, we gladly do so here. Just select whatever wording or images you like. With a click of the mouse, they will become part of your own Legacy of the Heart.

Think about what would happen if tomorrow came and you were not able to see the people you love most…ever again? What would you want to say to them? What to share…if only you could?


	On December 1st, 1982, Karen Russell, National Grief Support Services Executive Director’s life was forever changed. Her high school sweetheart, Michael Press, later to be her first husband, was tragically killed by a drunk driver. She felt inconsolable. The loss was unbearable. All that they had shared was forever gone. Or was it?	Click on the Letter to See the Rest of the Story

This is the story of a young woman who lost her battle with cancer, leaving behind a husband, two young sons and an infant daughter. In facing her life-threatening illness, she and her husband agreed that after she died, every night her children would be read to from her many journals.
Years later, as they children grew into adulthood, they were asked by a caring family member whether they felt the loss of their mother had a detrimental effect on their lives and their reply:

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