Barndt Funeral Home

12/24/2025

View Timothy Alan Pettit's obituary, contribute to their memorial, see their funeral service details, and more.

12/24/2025

This holiday season, I keep coming back to the thought that we’re all just walking each other home.

Some days the walk feels long and heavy.

Grief can make the lights dimmer, the music quieter, and even the simplest traditions feel different.

But then…someone reaches out, listens, shares a story, or simply walks beside us for a while.

And in those small moments, we realize we’re not alone on this path.

We may each carry our own grief, but together, we carry one another through it.

That’s what this season is really about…love that shows up, even in loss.

So if you’re missing someone this year, know that I’m walking beside you too.

One step, one breath, one day at a time…we’re all just walking each other home. 💙

Gary Sturgis – Surviving Grief

12/19/2025

View Isreal Flores, Sr.'s obituary, contribute to their memorial, see their funeral service details, and more.

12/16/2025

Moving forward doesn’t mean forgetting your loved one. Instead, it’s about finding ways to cherish and celebrate his or her life while embarking on a journey that brings new fulfillment to your own. This final session will give you ways to honor and preserve your loved one’s memory as you pursue skills and interests that bring you a sense of purpose.

Join us Wednesday evening from 6-8 PM at the Wayne United Methodist Church downstairs in the Senior Center. It's our final session for this years support group. We plan to host again in the spring, but we urge you to join us Wednesday evening to experience what all this wonderful support group has to offer ❤️

12/15/2025

View Phyllis J. Nietz's obituary, contribute to their memorial, see their funeral service details, and more.

12/11/2025

12/08/2025

View Doris I Lahman's obituary, contribute to their memorial, see their funeral service details, and more.

12/06/2025

Celebration of Life Service for Donna J. Berger

12/03/2025

View Donna J. Berger's obituary, contribute to their memorial, see their funeral service details, and more.

12/03/2025

Holiday cards used to be so simple. I’d pull out the list, sign both our names, and off they went, like a paper snapshot of our shared life.

But after my loss…that all changed.

Holiday cards are one of those grief triggers that you don’t see coming until the first time you have to think about doing them.

Just looking at our old address list stirred up fresh waves of grief, because they represented a life that didn’t exist in the same way anymore. Even the messages inside the cards felt painfully out of sync with the reality of my broken heart.

Did you ever notice how many cards say, “WE wish you” and “from OUR house to yours.”?

I also felt all that grief stress…”If I don’t send cards, will people think I don’t care about them?” mixed with “If I do send them, how do I possibly do this without the person I always signed beside?”

Sometimes skipping cards altogether was just so much easier!

But other times, continuing the tradition was my way of saying, “I’m still here, even if everything has changed.”

I remember very clearly that moment, the one no one warned me about, when I sat down with pen in hand and realized it wasn’t ‘us’ anymore. It was just ‘me’.

I stared at that blank space next to my name for the longest time, wanting so badly to squeeze their name in there somehow, as if writing it would pull them back into the picture. Part of me wanted to keep signing both of our names anyway, and part of me knew this was one more painful way the world was insisting I learn to ‘move on’.

So there I was, signing just my name, this new, unwanted identity of only me.

It didn’t feel empowering or independent like everyone was telling me.

It just felt lonely.

So if you’re struggling with this, I want you to know there are no rules, only what your heart can handle.

Because there’s nothing that matters more than your own emotional well‑being.

Here’s the thing…whether you send ten cards, one card, or none at all this year, your love for the person who’s gone is written everywhere.

Far beyond the edges of any envelope.

Gary Sturgis - Surviving Grief

12/02/2025

Happiest of birthdays to Doug Barndt, the absolute best Papa & Dad around ❤️🥳🎉🎂

11/24/2025

View Barbara Lee Shammo's obituary, contribute to their memorial, see their funeral service details, and more.