Holidays can be difficult time for grieving families

"Because it is a time when family and friends get together and it's joyful time, it just magnifies that loss," Pat Fluetsch said of her first Christmas as a widow since Mike Fluetsch, her husband of 46 years, died of heart failure this past August.

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