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The Memorial Candle Program has been designed to help offset the costs associated with the hosting this Tribute Website in perpetuity. Through the lighting of a memorial candle, your thoughtful gesture will be recorded in the Book of Memories and the proceeds will go directly towards helping ensure that the family and friends of Joan Streidl Gardner can continue to memorialize, re-visit, interact with each other and enhance this tribute for future generations.

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Joan Streidl Gardner
In Memory of
Joan
Streidl Gardner
1954 - 2018
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The lighting of a Memorial Candle not only provides a gesture of sympathy and support to the immediate family during their time of need but also provides the gift of extending the Book of Memories for future generations.

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Cam's speech from Joan's Florida Celebration, part 2

I wrote this part of the speech, but lacked the voice to deliver it without breaking down.  Cam read it out and did a wonderful job: 

I think we all would like to express our thoughts about Joan, because she was so very loveable...

Pat Streidl
2018-07-02 20:01:01
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Cam's speech from Joan's Florida Celebration

My brother Cam gave this speech, along with other observations and stories told extemporaneously, in Florida at Joan's celebration.:

When we grew up in Plainwell, MI, we had two groups of kids in our family: The 4 BIG kids and the 4 L...

Pat Streidl
2018-07-02 19:39:44
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