Last week Reflections was hosted at a very special location for us, the field team, we bought it to a funeral home in Eagan, MN. For the six years before joining the MRA team we called Eagan home. So when Klecatsky & Sons Funeral Home called us to plan an event I couldn’t help but be giddy. After speaking with Rich Graner I knew exactly where the location was, just two blocks from our home. We had a bit of fun planning this event and getting invites out to all the local groups that we were associated with. Now if the weather had just cooperated.
The Klecatsky family came out in force to help out; even the grandkids were put to work placing flags. Friday was filled with visits from local families and a few home school groups, the rain and winds did not keep guests from coming to see the unique exhibit. I forget sometimes how different it is to view history this way. Being with Reflections will forever change the way I view events. History writes about people and their works but to look at a funeral you see what that person meant to society in their own lifetime.
This was probably the event with the cutest group of kids, even if one did happen to be my nephew. We got a real sense of how the families at Klecatsky’s have become close to the Eagan and South St. Paul communities.
