Klaassen Family Funeral Home

09/02/2026

We wish to express our sympathies to the family and friends of Dennis Parker.

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09/02/2026

We would like to extend our sympathies to the family and friends of William "Bill" Bedford, Sr.

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09/01/2026

The Memorial Service for John Naser will take place at 11:00 a.m. on Friday, November 13, 2026, at Klaassen Family Funeral Home. Visitation will be held one hour prior to the service at the funeral home. Please click below for his full obituary and to sign his online guestbook.

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09/01/2026

"Sydney discovers that she minds the loss of her mourning. When she grieved, she felt herself to be intimately connected to Daniel. But with each passing day, he floats away from her. When she thinks about him now, it is more as a lost possibility than as a man. She has forgotten his breath, his musculature."
- Anita Shreve, Body Surfing

Your grief will be a strong presence in your life for the next couple of years. Strangely, it will be something you become accustomed to over time. It will eventually fade into the background of your life.

08/31/2026

"The difference between shallow happiness and a deep, sustaining joy is sorrow. Happiness lives where sorrow is not. When sorrow arrives, happiness dies. It can't stand pain. Joy, on the other hand, rises from sorrow and therefore can withstand all grief. Joy, by the grace of God, is the transfiguration of suffering into endurance, and of endurance into character, and of character into hope--and the hope that has become our joy does not (as happiness must for those who depend up on it) disappoint us."
- Walter Wangerin Jr., Reliving the Passion: Meditations on the Suffering, Death, and the Resurrection of Jesus as Recorded in Mark.

You will endure this experience. There will undoubtedly be pain, but the joys in your life will help you to survive it.

08/30/2026

"Psychoanalysis is often about turning our ghosts into ancestors, even for patients who have not lost loved ones to death. We are often haunted by important relationships from the past that influence us unconsciously in the present. As we work them through, they go from haunting us to becoming simply part of our history. (243)"
- Norman Doidge, The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science

Your loss has changed who you are. As with any difficult experience, you will look back in a few years and know how it has changed you.

08/29/2026

A Celebration of Life for Katherine Saurbaugh will be held tomorrow, Sunday, August 30, 2026, from 3:00 to 5:30 p.m. at the Grand Haven Eagles, Aerie # 925- Upstairs Hall. Please click below to sign her online guestbook and view full obituary.

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08/28/2026

"Remember that grief is a necessary pain. It's your only way to heal. To starve it will destroy you."~The Grimoire"
- S.M. Boyce, Lichgates

Do not hold back your tears, your words, and your feelings. Grieving is not always pretty, but it is how we heal our hearts from great loss.

08/27/2026

We wish to express our sympathies to the family and friends of Thomas "Tom" Joiner.

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08/27/2026

We would like to extend our sympathies to the family and friends of John Sloan.

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