When Bonny found out that she had cancer, she wanted her grandchildren to remember. We helped her create a book for her grandchildren. This book would help her communicate her values to her granddaughters and help them to remember her after she passed.
We worked with Bonny to collect pictures of her paintings and quilts, digitize her artistic photgraphs, and gather pictures of her throughout her life. From our interviews with Bonny, we wrote her biography as a children’s book.
As Bonny worked on this project, she reflected on her life, which albeit short, was full of love and wonderful memories. She wrote letters to each of her grandchildren, sharing her love and her hopes for their futures.
“This book is such a treasure. Faye and Erik worked with my wife to create this memorial for our granddaughters. During Bonny’s illness, she was so excited to create this beautiful book. Faye and Erik were excellent about sharing the progress, and asking Bonny about each photo and clarifying the story behind each one. They helped her to write letters to the granddaughters that they can read when they are older. This was much more than a just a book – this was a way for Bonny to send her message down the generations. I cannot say enough how important this was to Bonny and me.
-Bonny’s Husband
