Posted by admin on Jan 4, 2010
Leo Guenette’s classmates at J.E. Benson Public School in Windsor, Ontario, had Christmas wish lists full of iPods and video games. But Leo’s had an unusual entry — a gravemarker for his beloved grandmother.
“This is what I really wanted,” the 13-year-old boy said, speaking about his grandma, Margaret, who died Nov. 9. “She was good.”
The Grade 7 student was asked by his teacher to do a writing assignment last month answering the question: “If you had only one wish for Christmas, what would it be?”
When teacher Michelle Landry saw his request, she went about making the boy’s wish come true.
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