Widowed and Lonely Goose at Riverside Cemetery in Marshalltown, Iowa, Finds Love Again

A resident and lonely goose at Riverside Cemetery in Marshalltown, Iowa, has found love again.

Blossom and Bud, a beautiful pair of geese, were happy together and would roam the grounds of Riverside Cemetery in Marshalltown Iowa, until Bud passed away in the summer of 2022.

Blossom was left lonely and heartbroken; she would spend hours staring at her reflection on the shiny sample headstones.

David Shearer, the 61-year-old general manager of the cemetery, said she seemed very lonely.

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Dorie Tammen, the former manager of Riverside Cemetery, felt that Blossom needed a new partner.

In February 2023, she posted a ‘personalized’ ad on the cemetery’s Facebook page, explaining the situation of the lonely goose searching for companionship and mentioning her ‘occasional shenanigans.’

Fortunately, the post was read by 66-year-old Deb Hoyt, the executive director of Healing Hearts with Horses in Runnells, Iowa.

She had a lonely goose named Frankie, who had a similar tale and recently lost his partner, like Blossom.

Hoyt and her husband brought Frankie to the cemetery on Valentine’s Day 2023 to arrange a meeting between the geese, believing they would make a good pair.

However, the meeting did not go as planned. When they tried to introduce the birds, Frankie seemed agitated, took flight across the cemetery’s lake, and disappeared.

The Hoyts were disappointed, as they were unable to spot Frankie even after searching the entire area.

They feared they had enraged him and worried that, due to the cold and rain, he might even perish.

But as luck would have it, the next day, Tammen called Hoyt to inform her that not only had Frankie been found, but the two geese had also fallen in love with each other.

The geese are now inseparable, roaming the cemetery grounds and swimming together on the two-acre pond known as Lake Woodmere.

According to Shearer, Frankie and Blossom are now friends with other residents of the property, namely, swans, ducks, and Chinese geese.

The cemetery staff post regular updates and share pictures of the ‘lovebirds’ eating, walking, and swimming together on their Facebook page.

To honor the geese and their love story, two authors, who are also high school friends, Kim Wuertz and Dev Elliott have written two separate books on the geese couple.

Deb Elliott wrote “Geese on the Streets: Blossom and Frankie’s Love Story,” while Kim Wuertz penned a picture book titled “Frankie and Blossom: A Honkin’ Great Love Story.”

Some proceeds from the sale of these books will go to Riverside Cemetery, to help cover damages suffered during the 2020 derecho in Iowa.

Meanwhile, the happy couple finds solace in each other, is always together, and never apart.