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THE BARHAM FAMILY OF MIDDLETOWN HAS MUSIC IN THE BLOOD Writer / Julie Engelhardt Photography Provided

Jenny received her master’s degree in music education from the University of Illinois.

Around the time Jenny was scheduled to graduate, Spencer received a job offer in Louisville, so the couple relocated to Kentucky.

to play flute because it was the prettiest, but my mom happened to have a clarinet in the attic because she played clarinet years and years ago. That’s the instrument we had, so that’s what we played.” Her father played trombone in his high school marching band.

Spencer has kept quite busy with his This family of talented individuals includes musical performances. He was a member dad, Spencer, mom, Jenny, their son, Easton, of the River Cities Concert Band for 20 and their two daughters, Camille and Claire. years. Currently, he plays weekly with the Hurstbourne Baptist Church ensemble and with the group called Caribou, which Spencer’s performance journey began in Nashville, Tennessee. His parents were performs a combination of rock, funk and musical, and his dad played trumpet, which soul music. He also performs with Aviation is Spencer’s instrument of choice. He began Project, an ’80s and ’90s cover band, and his trumpet lessons in the fifth grade, and with the Subourbons, a blues band. continued performing through middle school and high school.

When COVID-19 hit hard and live entertainment began to shut down, Spencer He attended Middle Tennessee State and two of his Caribou bandmates began University on a music scholarship, studying their own group, called 502 Horns. They business administration. “I was very active contract with other bands that need to in the music department, and I belonged to incorporate a horn section now and then. several ensembles while in college,” he says.

“I also did a work-share program, working in On top of all of this, Spencer also serves as the music library as part of my scholarship the band booster president at Eastern High requirements.”

School.

Jenny performs as well, with the church ensemble, plus she has had a very successful career as a music educator. She began with a four-year stint teaching in Tennessee, and since their move to Louisville, she has been employed by Jefferson County Public Schools ( JCPS) at the former Iroquois Middle School, Doss, Fern Creek, and Thomas Jefferson Middle School. She currently teaches music technology, which she explains.

Musical families are a part of our cultural landscape. Over the years we’ve become familiar with The Osmonds, the Jackson 5, and even the fictitious Partridge Family.

Locally, we have our own musical family the Barhams.

Spencer met Jenny at the university, which she also attended on a music scholarship, studying music education. The couple got married and moved to Illinois, where

Like Spencer, Jenny also came from a musical family.

“I started in sixth grade,” she says. “I wanted

“The idea is that 20% of your students, give or take, will enter your performance classes like band, choir, orchestra,” she says. “The rest of the children generally get a general music-type class, or something to that effect.

This is a way to offer music that’s more hands-on than just learning about music history.”

Jenny just completed her first year of teaching middle school students through the Pathfinder School of Innovation, the virtual-learning option in JCPS.

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“As a concept, it’s been around for a while,” she says. “It was the Jefferson County eSchool, which was mainly for high school students, but as a response to the pandemic, there were a lot of families who were not ready to go back in person. This is now an option for students who want to have a nontraditional education.”

“I would say I wasn’t super passionate about band,” Easton says. “It wasn’t until about seventh or eighth grade when I started auditioning for all-county and doing [Kentucky Music Educators Association] ensembles. I thought, ‘Man, I’m kind of good at this.’ I found a meaning to playing trumpet.”

Spencer and Jenny’s children have all followed in their parents’ musical footsteps.

Easton began playing trumpet in the fifth grade at Middletown Elementary. He continued to Crosby Middle School, where he was under the direction of band teacher Joseph Stivers.

After Crosby, Easton headed to Eastern High School where he participated in marching band, jazz band and concert band.

“It was in my sophomore year I started thinking about college, realizing that I can’t imagine doing anything else besides music,” he says. “This is what I’m best at, and what

I’m called to do.”

He currently attends Florida State University, studying music education, and after that he plans to work on a master’s degree in performance.

Easton has had the opportunity to compete in some fairly large music competitions this year.

“Earlier this year I was invited to perform at the National Trumpet Competition in Boulder, Colorado,” he says. “It was a great opportunity to be around other collegiate trumpet players and meet the trumpet professors. That was an invaluable

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Easton also competed this year at the International Trumpet Guild Conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where they held lectures, master classes, presentations and competitions. “I applied to be in the orchestral excerpts division and I got into that,” he says. “Fifteen people competed in that division.”

brass instruments, I wanted to play a brass instrument like they do, but something different,” she says.”

COVID. However, he still made it fun over Zoom.”

The girls have thoroughly enjoyed their time Claire is also involved in the marching band, performing with the Eastern High bands. not as a musician, but as a member of the “Marching band has always been a great color guard. experience,” Camille says. “The short season Like their brother, both girls started in band with the intense schedule makes everything programs when they attended Middletown so rewarding, and I’ve enjoyed it every year.

I’ve also loved being in the symphonic and Elementary, graduating on to the Crosby jazz band. The environment is very lowCamille and Claire currently attend Eastern Middle School program with Stivers. stress, and very focused on making music High School, where they are both involved with everyone.”

“Middle school band was a lot of with the band program. Camille, a senior, fun,” Camille says. “It gave me lots of is in the school’s symphonic band, jazz Spencer and Jenny are pleased that their band, and marching/pep band. Her primary opportunities to try new things, and to get children have taken such a solid interest in instrument is the French horn, and she plays better at French horn. Mr. Stivers was an music. mellophone for the marching band, trumpet amazing band director. He’s great at caring for students and teaching them.” for the jazz band, and the piano in her free “I love it,” Jenny says. “Our kids grew up time. around music. We took them to concerts Claire agrees with her sister. “He was my favorite teacher at Crosby, and I had a really from the time they were sitting in strollers, Claire, a sophomore, is a trombone player and they’ve always heard it. It’s just great experience doing band in middle in the concert band. “I was interested in school,” she says. “In seventh grade I had to something that’s always been around them, it because it looked cool, and since my and it’s something that we share.” do [nontraditional instruction] because of dad and my sister and my brother all play

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You wouldn’t think, just by meeting Ethan, that he’s known suffering. He’s happy to see you, and he will do whatever it takes to spread a little cheer to anyone he meets. He doesn’t even do it with words. Ethan is a rescue dog - a presa canario, to be specific.

says. “I wasn’t sure he was going to make it through the weekend, but it was obvious he’d never been shown any love at all in his life, and so however long he had, I wanted to make sure that he knew that he was cared for.”

Ethan’s story began in January 2021, when he was found abandoned outside of a Kentucky Humane Society (KHS) campus. “He had obviously been kept in a small, confined space where he couldn’t get up, and he was actively dying,” says Jeff Callaway, who met Ethan the day he was found. He weighed only 38 pounds when he was found, though he should’ve weighed 90.

On his first night, Ethan was taken to an animal hospital due to seizures. “He was not only physically in bad shape, but mentally,” Callaway says. “You could put some food in front of him and he could smell that it was there, but he didn’t have that cognitive ability to put his mouth where his nose was smelling the food. So it took quite a bit of staying with him and working one on one.”

Callaway, a four-year employee of the KHS at the time and a lifelong animal lover who had always had rescue dogs, reflects on that day. “It was kind of hard to explain, but when I saw him, I just kind of knew he was my dog,” he says.

Even though the veterinary staff estimated that Ethan had less than a 10% chance to live, Callaway was not deterred. “I just wanted to do whatever I could for him,” he

him for walks. He played games with him to keep his mind stimulated. “That went on for a couple weeks, and then we were going to have a bad snowstorm and no one was certain whether we were going to be able to get in the next day or not,” Callaway says.

“He was well enough to come home and spend the night, so that night he came to my house, and he’s been there ever since.”

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been named Compassion Ambassador by the Kentucky Derby Festival, and has been inducted into the Kentucky Veterinary Medical Association Hall of Fame. He has thrown out first pitches, and he’s received proclamations from the Metro government.

In 2022 he won the American Humane Hero Dog Award for the Shelter Dogs category, and the American Humane National Hero Dog of the Year.

personal connection with every single person,” Callaway says. Seeing the positive impact Ethan has on an individual level has the greatest effect on Callaway.

“It’s overwhelming to me to see this positive impact, and the amount of attention that this one little dog can bring to shelters and to abused animals,” he says. “His message is always about love and support, and we try to always end those messages with, ‘Please do something kind for someone today.’

Alongside Callaway, Ethan advocates So no matter where we go, we just want to for a tightening of anti-torture, antishow that, no matter where you’ve been and abandonment law in Kentucky. With such what you’ve been through, just show some an involvement in legislation, he has even sat in the gallery of the house and the senate love and support for one another, and you never know what the other person is going to watch proceedings. through. [Ethan] has every right to be not Just recently, Ethan and Callaway received a nice, and unkind to people and animals, but WLKY Bell Award, marking the first time an he’s just not that way.” animal will be recognized.

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Ask your local shelter what their needs are.

“Unfortunately, there are still animals that are still mistreated in our communities, and anything we can do to try to help those animals out, we want to try to do,” Callaway says. “Just be kind to folks. You never know what their story is and what they’ve gone through, and sometimes a little bit of kindness can be exactly what they needed that day.”

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THE DREAM FACTORY HELPS WISHES COME TRUE FOR CHRONICALLY AND CRITICALLY ILL CHILDREN Writer / Julie Yates Photography Provided

Childhood and adolescence are typically characterized as a carefree and fun-filled periods of life. They are thought of as times of self-discovery, as endless possibilities are experienced without the weight of a lot of responsibility. Most parents can enjoy watching their children unfold their wings and fly into the world with only minor stumbling. Unfortunately, this isn’t the case for families with a critically or chronically ill child.

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appointments. For them, worry is a constant theme. The Dream Factory, a national wishfulfillment organization, has a mission to enable such children, aged 3 to 18, to briefly set aside these struggles.

The Dream Factory has over 30 chapters across 16 states, and is the largest allvolunteer organization of its kind. Founded in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, in 1980, its headquarters are in Louisville. With only three full-time positions and one part-time paid position, 95% of the money it raises The lives of families with a child experiencing an advanced or chronic disease goes directly to its mission. This has enabled the organization to earn Charity Navigator’s are hampered by the demands of hospital highest rating of four stars for the past stays, and scheduled doctor or treatment 14 / NOVEMBER 2023 / TownePost.com

nine years.

Besides being staffed almost entirely by volunteers, The Dream Factory has another aspect that sets it apart. As with other wish-fulfillment organizations, it allows recipients to have a family vacation, attend an event or meet someone special. However, it aims to provide these memory-making experiences not only for children nearing the end of life, but also for those with serious and chronic illnesses that have interfered with their childhood.

“We are like other similar organizations in that we all want to provide a brief time of relief from worry, and put smiles on the faces of a child and the family,” says Mike McKenzie, chief executive officer and national director. “Except in our case, the illness doesn’t have to be life threatening. We provide dreams for children with serious chronic conditions such as spina bifida, cerebral palsy, active sickle cell anemia and Down syndrome, and individuals with heart or pulmonary issues. We don’t use the word ‘terminal.’

We don’t want a child to hear the word used when discussing their eligibility and ask what it means.”

In fact, some dream recipients have grown into adulthood and are living fruitful lives. McKenzie recounts the story of a teenage girl whose dream was a one-

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on-one meeting with the Pope. Today she is married and has children. The impact of the organization can never be fully measured, but it is clear the experiences granted make a lasting difference.

Children with chronic illness battle stress and depression. In addition, they may also suffer from post-traumatic stress syndrome.

Two studies in recent years have yielded results that suggest a fulfilled wish can improve an ill youngster’s quality of life. A 2015 study in Israel reported that increased positive emotions generated through participating in dream programs fostered an increased sense of well-being. More recently, a 2018 study conducted at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, concluded that patients who were granted a wish were more likely to have fewer unplanned hospital and emergencydepartment visits.

The Dream Factory can be part of the team helping the family through an illness

journey, but out of respect for privacy, a patient is never recruited. Parents, guardians, physicians, and children with advanced documented diseases can make referrals to begin the dream-granting process. There is no regard given to race, color, creed, religion, ethnic origin or economic status, but the child must reside in a community where a chapter exists.

“Chapters build relationships with local hospitals,” says McKenzie. “Typically, a child-life specialist or treatment plan coordinator is assigned to families. This person becomes a point of contact. Social media posts made by family members also raise awareness of our organization and increase referrals after being viewed by those experiencing similar situations.”

can make it happen in three to four weeks if that is all the time a child has. What drives us is that we know the wish will make lasting memories for the rest of the family.”

McKenzie shares that the types of dreams provided are varied. Not everyone asks for a trip such as a stay in Disney World.

Some children wish for shopping sprees, gaming consoles or concert tickets. During COVID, “she sheds” were built or campers were requested for family getaways.

Compromised immune systems must be kept in mind when considering dream options.

“One of the most heart-tugging dreams was given to a child at the Kentucky Children’s Hospital affiliated with the University of Kentucky in Lexington,” says McKenzie.

“His mother and father were from Africa “When the referrals come into the local and when their visa expired, they had to chapters, members ask themselves, ‘How return to Africa. His wish was to get back to can we figure out a way to make this happen?’” he continues. “Sometimes it must Africa so he could spend his final days with his family.” be a second choice. The hardest is how we

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Fundraising depends on local communities.

In Louisville there is a black-tie gala. In rural areas it might be a tractor pull. There are golf scrambles and trivia nights, and in Memphis wet-suited individuals water ski at the annual New Year’s Day Ski Freeze. We accept donations on our website as well.”

to reach out his national office and start a conversation. He feels there is no shortage of children who could qualify and benefit from having a dream fulfilled.

There is plenty of room at the table for anyone who wants to make a difference in a gravely ill child’s life by volunteering or initiating a new chapter.

The Dream Factory is fortunate to have several national partners who believe in and support their mission. These businesses and organizations facilitate dreams.

Among them are American Airlines, Atlantis, Holiday Inn and Southwest Airlines. Foundations represented include Sunshine Foundation, Something mAAgic Foundation, and Samtec Cares.

“My wife and I began volunteering for the Lexington chapter,” says McKenzie.

“We just felt in our hearts and minds the urge to help sick kids and put a smile on their face. After I retired from education about five years ago, this opportunity to take a national leadership role came up.

I can’t think of a greater way to write the last chapter of my work life than this. I firmly believe that each and every dream makes a difference. For perhaps a week, a family doesn’t have to worry about doctor appointments, shots or chemotherapy. A child gets to be normal for a week. That’s

McKenzie, who was an educator and high school principal before retiring, would like to see the organization grow. He urges any community wanting to start a local chapter

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For more information on The Dream factory including volunteering, finding a local chapter and donations, visit dreamfactoryinc. org. The national office is located at 410 West Chestnut Street, Suite 530 in Louisville. Call them at 502-561-3001.

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She was bothered by the ugliness she was seeing in people, such as arguments over masks and the unjust deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. “It was important for me to move forward in some way because books build empathy,” she says. “We needed a community that came together in a positive space to talk about hopeful things. As vaccines were developed,

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As COVID rates started to climb higher, Cummings says she “could not in good conscience move forward with an in-person gathering, but I did not easily decide to go online again.” At that point everyone had serious Zoom fatigue from online church, school and work. Despite this, and after much consideration, Cummings

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with Pete the Cat and Mo Willems’ beloved characters Elephant and Piggie. “We had over 3,000 people attend the festival and we gave away thousands of free books to kids, which was amazing,” Cummings says. “I was one of those kids who did not get a book every time the book fair came to school, and I wanted every child to be able to walk away with at least one book that they could Many Jefferson County Public Schools students attended the Friday sessions, which choose.” gave them the opportunity to meet and discuss books and writing with adults whose This year’s festival will once again be held at the Kentucky International Convention works run the gamut from science fiction Center on Friday, November 10 and to memoirs to poetry. Adult attendees Saturday, November 11, and there is a could also meet and greet authors, as well lot to be excited about. “This year we as purchase their books, with Carmichael’s Bookstore serving as the official bookseller are very hyped about having a New York Times bestselling author from right of the event. There were all kinds of panels here in Louisville, Jermaine Fowler, the and discussions both days, covering topics author of ‘The Humanity Archive,’ which from how to pitch to publishers to writing appropriately underscores the exact message about lived experiences. of the Louisville Book Festival,” Cummings says. “His work is the perfect complement Librarians from the Louisville Free Public to our mission to highlight diverse stories Library held story times for kids, and attendees were able to get their photos taken and amplify all voices, but especially a row, but when Deedee Cummings has a dream, she wants reality to match her vision. So plans were made for 2022 and, fortunately, all the stars aligned. The 2022 Louisville Book Festival was held in person at the Kentucky International Convention Center on October 28 and 29.

marginalized ones.”

Families with children should venture downtown since firefighters, family court judges, and other members of the community will read to kids during story times. There will also be librarians who use books for art projects with children.

Whether a person loves writing, is interested in publishing, wants to promote literacy in the community, or just needs to flip through cool books, they should visit the Louisville Book Festival.

Even though it is a book festival, the event is really about more than books. “Books hold the secrets to who you are as a person, who you want to be, how to prosper, how to save your marriage, and how to survive,” Cummings says. “If books weren’t powerful, there would not have been concerted campaigns throughout all of history to limit your ability to access them.”

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At 19 years old, Luke Walker of Louisville knew he was going to join the military.

Just five days from shipping off to basic training, he learned that some of his medical paperwork didn’t pass the acceptance phase, and 21 days after his denial, Walker set off on the road.

“I was going to make a career out of the military and I was just devastated,” he says. "I didn’t know what I was going to do

with my life. I just started traveling. I went to Montana, Colorado, and lived in the Caribbean for a while. I was a whitewater raft guide and learned a little bit about bike touring. I even lived in a tent for some time.”

“A mentor of mine gave me a list of nonprofit military organizations and I researched all of them,” he says. “I wanted to make sure the majority of the money would go directly to veterans.”

Walker decided that if he couldn’t join the brotherhood he had always dreamed of, perhaps he could help them in a different way.

He found an organization called Homes For Our Troops (HFOT) with a mission to build adapted homes for disabled veterans across the U.S.

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“I liked that they have a list of veterans currently waiting on a home,” he says. “I watched a ton of videos and selected one that I related to.”

His plan included cycling from Key West, Florida, up the coast of Maine, and then across the northern portion of the country to Washington. Walker wanted the trip to be as similar to deployment as possible - no hotels, a $15-per-day budget and a lot of physical activity.

“I wanted to raise $50,000, but by the time I got to Michigan I had to see a doctor and was advised to medically drop out of my plan,” Walker says. “I’m at $5,000 right now but the money wasn’t my main goal. It was a personal challenge and more about raising awareness.”

Despite Walker’s setback, HFOT can use any donation and any awareness to support their mission.

In 2004 a general contractor named John Gonsalves offered to build a disabled veteran a home. The veteran denied his offer at first, but eventually said he would accept it on one condition - that Gonsalves didn’t stop with just him.

Today, 361 homes in 45 states have been built, all specially adapted for each individual veteran.

Tom Landwermeyer, president and chief executive officer of Homes for Our Troops, is a retired Army veteran of 33 years. He has seen firsthand the struggles wounded veterans face when they come home.

“These veterans tend to restrict themselves to a certain area of the home they can move around in,” he says. “[In a typical home] it’s not uncommon to have to walk up a couple of steps to the front door. The doors are narrow and the first thing you see is a flight of stairs up to the second floor. You can’t turn into doorways because the angles aren’t

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“We want our veterans to access the entire home, and have added

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There are currently more than 40 special applications built inside the home, and HFOT leaders continue to gather feedback and improve upon their next home.

For instance, individuals who have severe burns often have a lot of nerve damage and they can’t always feel water temperature, so showers in every home have a digital thermometer valve for programming temperature.

“Each home has a backup generator that can power the entire home,” Landwermeyer says. “This was a result of a veteran in the Midwest who encountered some storms.

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After handing over the keys, the relationship There are currently 70 projects underway and 100 veterans in the application process. continues to build.

Landwermeyer says there are at least another 1,000 severely wounded that would “It’s not the last you’ve heard of us,” qualify for the program.

Landwermeyer says. “We promised them a quality home and we’ll fix any issues. We HFOT serves veterans injured in post-9/11 need that feedback on the adaptations and war in Iraq and Afghanistan. Individuals we’re constantly upgrading house plans.” are approved through a special adapted housing grant program through Veterans Keeping in touch allows HFOT to learn Affairs (VA). In addition, financial planning all the ways this assistance helps the entire is provided for each family to help as they family. For example, 95% of families report a decrease in stress level. Employment rates move forward, and the staff at HFOT can for caregivers more than double, and for the walk veterans through each step of the process. spouse it nearly triples.

“The most important thing about staying in contact is to help when needed,” Landwermeyer says. “They have those chains taken off, they can accomplish things and do things as a family again, but the

“We have a lady in our office that responds to every message,” Landwermeyer says. “If our program doesn’t fit, she’ll put them in touch with a support organization that can help. We never say, ‘You don’t qualify,

goodbye.’ We also have people that know the VA system incredibly well and help with those steps, so just call us.”

HFOT puts 90 cents of every dollar back into the home and services for the veteran. They don’t pay for advertising, and they depend on business sponsorships, individual donations, and individual fundraisers like Walker’s.

“A few years ago we celebrated our 300th home in St. Louis, and the family had a 4-year-old girl and an 8-year-old boy,” Landwermeyer says. "Wayfair donated furniture in honor of our event, and this little girl was sitting on her big four-poster bed with pink and white decorations. One of our staff members asked her what she liked the most, and she said, ‘My dad is going to be able to come in my room and read me a story.’ This is something we can do for the entire family.”

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“All gave some. Some gave all.” Technically we celebrate those who gave their all on Memorial Day in May, but Veterans Day is also a fine time to remember those who lost their lives for our country. Visit a local memorial or military cemetery. Find state cemeteries at your state’s Veterans Affairs page, and national ones at cem.va.gov. Place flags or flowers on the graves.

The United States Armed Forces is made up of six branches: Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard and Space Force. You Heather French can explore each branch and even listen Henry, former to the hymns from each service corps on commissioner of Veterans YouTube, Spotify, Pandora or wherever you MAKE A FAMILY CONNECTION. Affairs, a former Miss access music. You can also remember the America, and current ambassador Reserves and National Guard members who Many Americans have served in the military. for Global Game Changers Look at your own family tree to see if you support the military on many missions.

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EXPLORE MILITARY SYMBOLS. Every nation uses symbols to honor its veterans, such as the yellow ribbon in America and the poppy in Great Britain and Canada. During World War II, mothers kept stars in their windows. You can explore the history with your children and enjoy the art, including the poem “In Flanders Fields” and the song “Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree.”

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any decades ago, Bird S. Owen Jr. was working with a funeral home in Pleasureville, Kentucky, when Edith Roberts entered the building and began playing the organ. When Bird laid eyes on Edith, he was immediately smitten. The two began courting and later wed. The pair moved to Louisville and built their first funeral home, opening in 1939 in the Parkland neighborhood.

and chief operating officer for the business.

Brothers and the Fanatics.

Ultimately he did both, running the funeral home and playing in bands, even now at the age of 69. Though David battled some health issues that knocked him out for a year, Barr says he’s back, full-throttle. He

Music has helped David navigate life in this business. Barr believes it’s crucial for funeral directors to have some sort of hobby to help them decompress after what they face daily.

For David, that outlet is music. For Barr, it’s photography. Another funeral director on staff restores cars.

Barr calls her dad one of the most giving people she’s ever known.

David has always been extremely One of Bird’s brothers was active in the community, having postmaster, the other a dentist. Bird’s worked on the boards of Kosair parents thought he was crazy to want Charities, Wednesday’s Child, to be a funeral director, but that was Harbor House of Louisville, and his dream. The couple lived above Gilda’s Club, a cancer support Owen Funeral Home in Parkland organization. David was a past with their daughter, Linda, until potentate of the Kosair Shriners in 1953, when Edith became pregnant First Owen Funeral Home Louisville, and the funeral home is with their son, David. As the years passed, it was assumed that David active with an organization called would take over the business from his father. not only runs the funeral home, but also still Southwest Community Ministries. sings in a group called the Monarchs. The Kids in particular have always tugged at David was a keyboard player and vocalist group regularly plays at the Derby Dinner David’s heartstrings. Barr recalls the time he for many bands. “My grandpa told him he Playhouse and Turtle Run Winery. They saw a story on television about a 2-year-old could have a year, but unless he became also get booked for New Year’s Eve and a superstar, he needed to return to the Valentine’s Day parties. In the past he’s sung boy who was shot by his brother. business,” says Rachel Barr, David’s daughter in other local bands including the Wulfe 34 / MIDDLETOWN MAGAZINE / NOVEMBER 2023 / TownePost.com

“He said, ‘I want to do that family’s funeral for free,’” says Barr.

Taking special care of families who have lost children has always been a must at Owen Funeral Homes. Back when Bird ran the business, if anyone lost an infant, he’d do that funeral for free. Linda Owen Miller was a forerunner of tailoring funerals for infants and children.

“We still do that,” says Barr. “We provide a tiny casket and cremation at no charge.

We’re able to do that because we are family owned.

They also handle a lot of miscarriages free of charge.

In addition, if they meet with a family who doesn’t have funds or needs help, they try to work with them to come up with a solution that won’t break the bank.

“It’s building off of what my grandfather has

always done,” says Barr.

for nonprofit Operation Toy Solider.

David is the one who suggested hiring a bereavement services specialist for Owen Funeral Homes, which they did in 1999 when they brought licensed therapist Genene Nisbet on board. Nisbet, a native of Louisville, cultivates their after-care program, which includes grief support groups, individual counseling, events, and breakfast and lunch outings for anyone they have served who has experienced a loss.

Nisbet also takes them on trips to places like Churchill Downs, Mackinac Island, New York City, and Branson, Missouri.

Owen Funeral Homes has locations at 5317 Dixie Highway, and at 9318 Taylorsville Road in Jeffersontown. The former serves between 400 and 500 families per year, while the Jeffersontown location serves about 120.

Jeffersontown has just three employees, and offers more of a small-town feel.

“We’re lucky to have Genene,” says Barr. “I don’t know of many other funeral homes that do this.”

Each year they also treat the community to a gospel concert and free lunch, where they invite folks to donate toys and toiletries for families served by Southwest Community Ministries, as well as their annual car show

“We see a lot of families, but we’re not moving them in and out like they’re another number,” says Barr. “I just had a family call this week to arrange a funeral. They have experienced three losses in the last eight months. That takes a tremendous amount of trust for a family to keep coming back, but we are here for them.”

It all comes down to compassion and empathy, which is at the heart of what they do.

“People ask me all the time, ‘Isn’t it sad working in this field?’” says Barr. “Honestly, I would struggle to be a nurse or a doctor and

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For the past 11 years, Barr and her father have been instructing a newer generation of funeral directors. Barr wants the transition to be smooth because she insists that the service remain top-notch.

“It’s like ‘The Karate Kid’ when Mr. Miyagi had his apprentice doing all these things that helped him perfect his discipline - none of which were practicing karate,” says Barr. “If I tell an apprentice to get lunch, they’d better get the order right because it trains them to listen to what families want and need.”

At Owen Funeral Homes they make sure everything is just right, from the outdoor landscaping to the indoor decor. Barr’s mom, Pam, who runs all of the social media for the business, is an interior designer by trade, so she makes sure the funeral homes are bright rather than dim. They don’t leave the lights off if a room is not being used,

because who wants to see a dark room when “We hear from families who say, ‘Your grandfather took care of my infant,’” says they’re feeling sad?

Barr. “We want to continue to be a comfort to our community.”

Barr insists those types of details make a difference, especially when one is facing the daunting task of trying to fulfill a loved one’s Contact the Dixie Highway location at 502-447-2600, and the Jeffersontown last wishes. location at 502-266-9655. Also visit owenfuneralhome.com or follow them on Barr and the rest of the staff do all they can to help make life a bit easier for families who Facebook. are muddling through difficult times. They do that by asking questions and getting to know the person who passed away, in order to personalize the service. For instance, it’s not unusual for them to set up a motorcycle or car in the room if those items were important to the deceased.

“It’s all about understanding who that person was,” says Barr.

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