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Steve Maguire & Dorothy Smith Memorial Bench
15 years ago this autumn, Stephen Kevin John Smith Maguire passed from this world after a 2-year battle with stage IV cancer.
To honor him, his family and friends raised money and had a memorial bench placed at the top of Hawk Mountain, one of his favorite places in the entire world--where he felt most connected to spirit and at peace.
The bench was dedicated to, and engraved with, his mother's name, as well as his own. Dorothy Benz Smith was a naturalist and educator at Peace Valley Nature Center in Bucks County, PA who brought her son to the mountain from the time he was small and taught him to love that place and all of nature. She also passed after a 2-year battle with cancer.
As part of their dedication to conservation and environmental protection, the memorial benches at Hawk Mountain Sanctuary are not sealed and have no treatment or form of weatherization which could leach chemicals into the ground. They are natural and organic and decay over time, as they are exposed to the elements. Steve and Dorothy's bench has lasted well these past 15 years, but its time at the mountain is coming to an end. It can no longer stand on its own and is in rapid decline. It will likely be removed in the spring.
Steve has no gravesite, so this bench at the top of the mountain is where his family and friends go to pay their respects and be with him. It has meant so much to so many over these last 15 years. So, we very much want to replace the bench with a new one when it is removed. To achieve this, we need to raise $3000. If we can do it by the end of the year, the new memorial bench for Steve and Dorothy will go up next spring.
A donation of any amount is a great help and much appreciated by myself, by his daughter, Rose, by his family, and by Steve himself. Steve, as we knew him, may be gone from this earth, but his spirit is still with us. He soars now with the eagles and hawks over the mountain he loved so much.
Many thanks for your donation and for spreading the word,
Tara & Rose
To honor him, his family and friends raised money and had a memorial bench placed at the top of Hawk Mountain, one of his favorite places in the entire world--where he felt most connected to spirit and at peace.
The bench was dedicated to, and engraved with, his mother's name, as well as his own. Dorothy Benz Smith was a naturalist and educator at Peace Valley Nature Center in Bucks County, PA who brought her son to the mountain from the time he was small and taught him to love that place and all of nature. She also passed after a 2-year battle with cancer.
As part of their dedication to conservation and environmental protection, the memorial benches at Hawk Mountain Sanctuary are not sealed and have no treatment or form of weatherization which could leach chemicals into the ground. They are natural and organic and decay over time, as they are exposed to the elements. Steve and Dorothy's bench has lasted well these past 15 years, but its time at the mountain is coming to an end. It can no longer stand on its own and is in rapid decline. It will likely be removed in the spring.
Steve has no gravesite, so this bench at the top of the mountain is where his family and friends go to pay their respects and be with him. It has meant so much to so many over these last 15 years. So, we very much want to replace the bench with a new one when it is removed. To achieve this, we need to raise $3000. If we can do it by the end of the year, the new memorial bench for Steve and Dorothy will go up next spring.
A donation of any amount is a great help and much appreciated by myself, by his daughter, Rose, by his family, and by Steve himself. Steve, as we knew him, may be gone from this earth, but his spirit is still with us. He soars now with the eagles and hawks over the mountain he loved so much.
Many thanks for your donation and for spreading the word,
Tara & Rose
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