Beautiful, comfortable and durable powder coated steel memorial benches from Memory Garden Benches, with bronze plaques, can be custom designed in memory or recognition of a loved one or pet.

The creation of custom designed memorial benches is a new concept originated by Memory Garden Benches. It is a process of our staff painstakingly working with you, the purchaser, to understand the life of the person whose memory is being permanently remembered and then developing a unique artistic impression of this person which is given to you for your review and approval.

The end result of this process is a beautiful, comfortable and durable place to remember your loved one — a powder coated steel memorial bench in the colors of your choice, and accompanied by a personalized bronze plaque naming the person or persons you are honoring.

An example of our memorial benches are two identical custom designed benches prepared in memory of Steve Irwin, Discovery Channel’s “Crocodile Man” from Australia. The custom artwork on these benches featured an outline of him kneeling at a pond, with a crocodile and foliage, and a text message including his name — all cut out of steel in the backs of the memorial benches. The benches were purchased by Wildlife Images, an animal and bird rehabilitation sanctuary near Grants Pass, Oregon. One bench was placed on Wildlife’s campus and the other bench was air freighted to Steve’s wife in Queensland, Australia, for placement at the nature preserve Steve and his family created and operated there.

Another of our custom designed memorial benches is the one we prepared in the memory of Jack Fried, a nine year old boy from Beaverton, Oregon, who passed away in 2008 due to cancer. Jack’s third grade classroom wanted to remember him in a special way with a bench expressing his interest in Legos and fighter planes, and in recognition of his special courage in fighting cancer – courage that resulted in him being chosen Oregon’s champion child by the Children’s Miracle Network, winning a trip to Washington D.C., to meet the president. The memorial bench for Jack featured his silhouette above his name in letters taken from Legos, a fighter jet, and a group of 10 boys and girls holding hands above the words “Fighting Cancer Together.” Jack’s bench is on the Cedar Mill Elementary School playground and has a bronze plaque giving his name and when he lived.
In summary, we feel our custom designed memorial benches give people, who are in a situation they can do little or nothing about, the power to do something — to create, in love, honor and remembrance, a unique and lasting memorial to someone now lost to them. We at Memory Garden Benches are both proud and humbled to be allowed — with steel, colors and bronze — to help people through the grieving process by creating a beautiful, permanent memorial for their loved ones.

Phil
Artist & Designer