Grandon Funeral & Cremation Care

11/13/2025

“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”

-- Confucius

11/12/2025

A new obituary has been published.

W. Dale Brentnall age 106, of Ames, died Nov. 6, at Green Hills Retirement Community. A visitation will be 4 - 6:00 p.m. Monday, November 17, at Grandon F

11/12/2025

A new obituary has been published.

Vince Hassebrock age 93, of Ames Iowa died on November 11, 2025, at Green Hills Retirement Community in Ames. A visitation will be 3-5:00 p.m. Tuesday, Nov

11/12/2025

A new obituary has been published.

11/12/2025

A recommended book for all ages, “The Fall of Freddie the Leaf” by Leo Buscaglia explores the delicate balance between life and death.

11/11/2025

A new obituary has been published.

Tom Tegtmeier, 76, passed away unexpectedly at his home on Sunday, November 9, 2025. A celebration of life will be 10:30 Monday, November 17, at Harvest

11/11/2025

A new obituary has been published.

Charles "Chuck" Schmidt of Ames, Iowa, passed away on November 6, 2025, at Israel Family Hospice House, at the age of 89. He was born on February

11/10/2025

11/09/2025

A new obituary has been published.

Rosalie "Rose" Marie Kelso, age 79, a longtime Ames resident, passed away peacefully on Sunday, October 5, 2025. A Celebration of Life will be h

11/09/2025

Death is nothing at all.
It does not count.
I have only slipped away into the next room.
Nothing has happened.

Everything remains exactly as it was.
I am I, and you are you,
and the old life that we lived so fondly together is untouched, unchanged.
Whatever we were to each other, that we are still.

Call me by the old familiar name.
Speak of me in the easy way which you always used.
Put no difference into your tone.
Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow.

Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes that we enjoyed together.
Play, smile, think of me, pray for me.
Let my name be ever the household word that it always was.
Let it be spoken without an effort, without the ghost of a shadow upon it.

Life means all that it ever meant.
It is the same as it ever was.
There is absolute and unbroken continuity.
What is this death but a negligible accident?

Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight?
I am but waiting for you, for an interval,
somewhere very near,
just round the corner.

All is well.
Nothing is hurt; nothing is lost.
One brief moment and all will be as it was before.
How we shall laugh at the trouble of parting when we meet again!

By Harry Scott-Holland

11/08/2025

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