Grieving Goose Roams The Cemetery Searching For Lost Partner, Gets New Soulmate On Valentine's Day
Riverside Cemetery is usually a place for quiet goodbyes, but this Valentine’s Day it turned into something way more tender. Blossom and Bud, two bonded domestic geese, were regulars there, and when Bud died, Blossom didn’t just “move on.” She started roaming, searching the grounds like her heart could still find him.
What makes it complicated is that Blossom wasn’t wandering randomly. She was grieving, lonely, and visibly still looking for a partner, which tugged at the people who work there, especially Dorie Tammen, the cemetery’s general manager. Instead of shrugging it off, the staff decided to help her, and one employee even floated the idea of a personal ad.
And then, right on schedule, the post worked.
The Riverside Cemetery welcomed a pair of domestic geese named Blossom and Bud, who were bonded to each other
“This is the first spring that Blossom hasn’t had a partner,” Dorie Tammen, general manager at Riverside Cemetery, told The Dodo. “She’s lonely and heartbroken. She needs a partner.”
The employees at the cemetery were moved by Blossom's yearning for her partner and felt compelled to act.
Blossom became a widow when Bud died, and she has been wandering the cemetery alone
When Blossom became a widow and kept circling the cemetery alone, Dorie Tammen noticed her grief was more than sadness, it was an active search.
They recognized that Blossom still had the capacity to love, even though they understood that nothing could bring Bud back, and they wanted to assist her in finding a new mate. To help locate a compatible companion for Blossom, one employee, Tammen, had the idea to post a sort of personal ad.
This instinctual drive has caused Blossom's grief to resurface, as she continues to seek out her late partner
That’s when the staff hit on the personal-ad idea, basically turning the cemetery into a matchmaking bulletin for a lonely, widowed goose.
It’s also like the grieving person who felt guilty for loving a new dog after the previous one died.
Well, guess what? It didn't take long before someone reconnected with them!
“His name is Frankie,” Tammen said. “They described him as a lonely, widowed male goose!”
A staff member came up with an idea to publish a personal ad
Valentine's Day is about to be special for this goose
The reply came fast, with Frankie described as a lonely widowed male goose, blue-eyed, and ready to meet Blossom.
Then Valentine’s Day arrived, Blossom and Frankie met, and the cemetery’s “ice-eating buddy” vibes were suddenly back, just with a new romance.
The post read:
Anyone who has heard about Blossom the goose in Marshalltown, who lost her mate, should know that our lonely Handsome, aka Frankie, with blue eyes, is going to be her new beau tomorrow on Valentine's Day. Hopefully, it will be love at first sight, and they will both live happily ever after.
Blossom and Frankie met exactly on Valentine's Day, and here's the video
The post continues saying:
We will miss our ice-eating buddy wherever we are outside. The best guard goose! Hopefully, he will prefer his mate rather than having to hang out with people. It was on Channel 8 tonight that Frankie is heading her way!
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This goose love story didn’t bring Bud back, but it did give Blossom a brand-new reason to linger at Riverside.
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