MATCH MADE IN HEAVEN
TWO
LONELY DUCKS GET FIXED UP
Frankie and Blossom had a lot in common. They’d both lost their longtime partners and were seeking companionship. They seemed to enjoy the same food and scenery.
On their first date, they walked along a lake, greeted the locals and shared a meal.
Their matchmakers were nearby, eager to see the two develop a bond. They could
only guess how the blind date was progressing. After all, it was between geese.
Two residents of nearby Iowa cities connected the widowed geese last month in hopes they’d become soul mates. So far, the arrangement has worked.
Since that date, Blossom and Frankie haven’t left each other’s sides — and might even be in love, their matchmakers saidt.
“They just kind of wandered around and hung out with each other and got to know each other,” said Dorie Tammen, the general
manager for Riverside Cemetery in Marshalltown, Iowa. “And the rest is history.”
Blossom settled at a lake on Riverside Cemetery’s property around April 2018 with her partner, Bud. Tammen got the idea for their names from a headstone that had made her curious, bearing epitaphs for twin infants who had died in 1888. The geese enjoyed swimming in the lake and eating bread from Tammen’s hands. They occasionally flew off...READ MORE
