July 3, 2007 - Benjamin Wagner

I’ll Be All Right If You’re Ok

By admin | July 3, 2007 |

I waded into the shoulder high corn, looked into the sun, and dropped to my knees. My grandparents are buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery on the western edge of Waterloo. When we laid my grandmother, Mildred Bolster, to rest beside her husband, William, in the summer of 1998, the view was a classic, unfettered Iowa…