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Beebe Healthcare Walk to Remember held at Blockhouse Pond

Liam Adams tosses a flower into Blockhouse Pond in remembrance of his siblings as a symbol of their lives as his mother Stephanie and volunteer Michael Wyatt lend support. DAN COOK PHOTOS
Dan Cook
October 16, 2022

Beebe Healthcare’s Perinatal Loss Support Services hosted the 18th annual Walk to Remember Oct. 9 at Blockhouse Pond in Lewes’ George H.P. Smith Park.

The Walk to Remember is held annually to recognize pregnancy loss, allowing parents, their friends, families and other supporters an opportunity to remember babies who have died during pregnancy or after birth.

Attendees gathered at the Blockhouse Pond pavilion and did a half-mile walk around the pond. At the end of the walk, a short memorial service was held to honor the memory of babies lost.

Beebe’s event is the only Walk to Remember held in Delaware specifically to commemorate pregnancy and infant loss. Similar walks take place nationwide each fall in honor of October’s designation as Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month.

 

Nate Signor, left, and Sara Robinson carry the banner for the Walk to Remember.
Ahmere Parker, 7, holds a butterfly during the release at the memorial service.
Ashley Collins, left, and her husband John remember their unborn loss with their daughter, Topanga.
Ashley Collins reads the poem “Love Still Grows and Sweetens” by Phyllis Hall as her daughter Topanga helps.
Terri Wyatt, Beebe Healthcare pregnancy loss grief counselor, reads the poem, “We Remember.”
Releasing a butterfly are (l-r) Porter Wyatt-Longfellow, 11; Lynzee Hudson, 7; and Haylie Hudson, 11.
Terri Wyatt, Beebe Healthcare pregnancy loss grief counselor, tosses a bouquet to remember all perinatal losses.
Vanessa Thomas tosses a flower in memory of daughter Joy Antionette.
Nicole Oscar tosses flowers in memory of her children Ashton and Autumn Oscar.
Vanessa Thomas leads a group during the Walk to Remember.
Liam Adams, left, and Ahmere Parker assist a butterfly to fly free.
The Rev. Keith Goheen leads the memorial service as student chaplain Judith Keefer, left, and volunteer Nate Signor await the reading of the names of infants lost.

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Dan has worked for the Cape Gazette for more than 30 years as a photographer and reporter, covering high school sports and happenings around eastern Sussex County. He won a photography award from the National Newspaper Association, and numerous awards from the Maryland, Delaware, D.C. Press Association. A Delaware native, Dan graduated from Cape in 1972 and returned as a teacher and coach in the 1980s. He retired from the classroom in 2016. He was inducted into Cape High’s Legends Stadium in 2016. In his spare time, Dan enjoys spending time with his wife, two sons, grandchildren and dogs. 

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