McKaela Crenwelge, sophomore at Fredericksburg High School, is working to clean up and renovate a rock garden at Fredericksburg Elementary School memorializing her former classmate and best friend, Addy Staats, who died in 2017. – Standard-Radio Post/Brent Burgess
Gillespie Life
Colorful stones of remembrance
By Brent Burgess
Standard-Radio Post Editor
Just to the left of the main entryway into Fredericksburg Elementary School (FES) lays a colorful rock garden surrounding a memorial stone. The stone is marked with these words:
“Addyson ‘Addy’ Staats. August 6, 2008-September 10, 2017. Whisper I love you to a butterfly and it will fly to heaven to deliver your message.”
The memorial is there to remember Addy Staats who died in 2017 in an airplane crash in Stonewall. Following the incident, s...
