Trish Vanderweerd remembers the times when company would come, and her husband Joe and teenage daughter Laura would grab their guitars and play a special family song together.
Come Walk With Me was based on a poem about nature that Joe’s sister, Emma Walsh, wrote in a Christmas card one year. Laura loved it, and set it to music.
One night, her father recorded her singing it.
“I remember thinking, ‘Why is he doing that?'” Trish Vanderweerd recalled. “But he was a proud daddy and he still is a proud daddy. And we’re ever so grateful that he recorded a few other songs, and those are just memories. We often play it and it’s comforting.”
Tragically, Laura Vanderweerd died in a two-vehicle collision in December at the age of 18. Three other …