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teven Baer of Chicago has
always had a special relation-
ship with his maternal grand-
mother Ethel Danto, a former Detroiter
now living in Sarasota.
At age 12, when he was playing base-
ball, he found a gold ring with three
small diamonds in the sand. Rather than
sell the ring for a good deal of pocket
money, he chose instead to give it to his
"Nana" for her 80th birthday. And how
many high school boys, sometimes with
their buddies, regularly visit their grand-
mothers after school?
In October, Baer, now 33, will be
getting married in Chicago to Merritt
Olson. But his beloved grandmother,
now 101, lives in a nursing home in
Sarasota, and, unfortunately, is too frail
to travel to the wedding.
Baer felt he just couldn't live with that,
so he and Olson decided they had to do
something to involve his grandmother in
their marriage rites. They arranged with
Rabbi Jonathan Katz of Longboat Key's
Temple Beth Israel (where his parents,
Pat and Bob Baer of Farmington Hills,
are winter members) to create a "bless-
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September 17 %, 2009
Pat and
Bob Baer of
Farmington
Hills, son
Steven Baer
and his fiancee,
Merritt Olson
of Chicago,
with "Nana"
Ethel Danto of
Sarasota on
the beach for a
blessing
ing on the beach',' an official betrothal,
that his grandmother could attend by
sitting in a beach wheelchair.
Held on June 6, the ceremony was
short, warm and intimate, involving
only the bride and groom, grandmother
Ethel, Steve's parents and Merritt's best
friend, Andrea Cedusky from Chicago.
All present smelled the sweet fra-
grance from the Havdallah spice box
that had belonged to Baer's late pater-
nal grandmother, Sylvia Baer. And the
couple drank from the tiny green glass
pitcher that had been Ethel's child-
hood Passover wine glass.
After a brief message by the rabbi,
the couple exchanged personally
written vows; then they were blessed
by the rabbi under the chuppah that
Baer's mother had crocheted.
So grandmother was part of it all,
including the lovely dinner that fol-
lowed. And Baer and Olson can live
with that. i I
Submitted by Pat Baer of Farmington Hills,
a proud mother of the bridegroom-to-be.