Widowed Geese Find Love Again at Iowa Cemetery [Video]

Blossom, the resident Goose at Riverside Cemetery in Marshalltown, Iowa, was heartbroken and lonely. After her mate, Bud, died in the summer of 2022 she spent hours staring at her own reflection in the shiny sample headstones outside the main office.

“She was just so very lonely,” says the cemetery’s general manager, David Shearer, 61.

“We thought, ‘She needs a partner,” says Dorie Tammen, 68, the former general manager of the cemetery. “I really didn’t think we’d have any trouble finding one for her.”

Tammen wrote a “personal” ad for Blossom, posting it on the cemetery’s Facebook page on Feb. 10, 2023, indicating that Blossom was looking for companionship and “occasional shenanigans.”

Meanwhile, about an hour away in Runnells, Iowa, a goose named Frankie had recently lost the love of his life. His mate had been sitting on their eggs when “something got her,” says Deb Hoyt, 66, executive director at Healing Hearts with Horses.

Frankie, too, was heartbroken. “He was alone and he …