Ernie Pyle Memorial Plaque

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Ernie Pyle Memorial Garden Plaque

Wood burned and colored with oil pencil on a basswood round.

Family log cookies on left side. We <3 you Ernie and Betty Lou in the tomato garden on top, followed by the 5 children and spouses with children of respective couples on back sides.

Sign's post from found wood.

Ken & Sandy, Dick & Nathie, Jerry & Barbara, Bob & Anne and Marcia & Neil. Kids on reverse sides.

Irregularly-shaped "We <3 you, Ernie" and Betty Lou- in- the- garden- with- tomato- plant- and -heart -tomato -in- hand" cookie.

"Children-with-spouses-and -their-respective- children" log cookies.

Backside of stake

New Mission

Ornaments, gift tags, luggage tags

Jerry didn't want the cookies for the sign and I just can't seem to throw wood away, so I sent them on a new mission. That's Ernie on the tractor and playing ball with Lou cheering him on. The five kids they raised and the spouses they married.

Reverse sides

I didn't know the names of all the grands, so on the opposite sides I put holly, 2 Canadian geese, a pheasant and a duck, a reindeer, holly and of course, Lou in the garden with a tomato plant and a heart-shaped tomato in her hand.