On October 22nd, 2022, Dolores Jean Wendorf, 89, loving wife, mother, and grandmother, passed away peacefully in her sleep surrounded by her family in Pine Lake, MN.
One ribbon does not look like the others.
Rev. Diane Wendorf stood on the church’s front steps Tuesday and held up a ribbon affixed to one of the railings. It was pink. And while the ribbon was a different color than the others, that was not its only distinction.
The white ribbons bore only a number, signifying how many Mainers had died with the virus at the moment each white strip was tied. The pink ribbon had a name: Louise Knight.
Knight, 93, of Sanford, died from the virus Jan. 4. She was a member of the North Parish church.
“She was a very generous soul, very down to earth,” Wendorf said. “She loved people. She was a delight. She embraced people so much.”