Widowed Geese Get a Second Chance at Love: 'They Never Leave Each Other's Side'

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...