She didn’t really know how handsome she was, inside and out. Neighbors opened up their land, telling Don to pay whatever rent seemed fair.
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“You move on and live each day”, Babbette wrote.
Babbette and Jaquish were married in 2000 and it was the second marriage for both of them.
“Everyone that ever met Babbette fell in love with her”, Jaquish recalled.
‘I couldn’t fathom, until I actually saw it how lovely it is, ‘ Jenny White, one of Babbette’s daughters and Jacquish’s stepdaughters, told KARE.
Tragically, just six years later, Babbette was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, cutting short their later-in-life romance.
Don began planting sunflowers to fulfill Babbette’s longtime goal of selling seeds to raise money for cancer patients.
Farmer Don Jaquish lost Babbette to cancer a year ago.
“She realised the importance of research in clinical trials”.
She had written letter to Mr Jaquish before she died, which he only discovered four months after her death.
He continues to hold her words close to his heart.
He started the Seeds of Hope programme and all money raised through this initiative will be put toward benefiting families affected by cancer.
“She’d walk into a room and her smile would light up a whole room”. “We had an awesome response”. “We’ve had people all over the world send emails”.
‘We wanted it to be a statement of love.
A few miles southwest of Eau Claire, where corn and soybeans normally kiss the edges of the road, now stands a 60-foot-wide sunflower strip – four-and-a-half miles long. And that’s just like my mom.
Babbette’s Seeds of Hope will soon be available for purchase, with her story on every 25-pound bag of sunflower seeds, and Jaquish said they’ll plant sunflowers for her every year.
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“They were very much in love with each other”.
