Diane Stoakes created a monarch butterfly garden at Aberdeen Village retirement community in Olathe when her dad, Lawrence, resided there in 2015.
Lawrence has since passed, but nine years later, Stoakes keeps the garden going.
Lily O’Shea Becker/KSHB“I can still see his apartment from here — he lived on the third floor there, and that is a bonus of it; it kind of keeps his memory going,” she said.
Other than keeping the memory of Lawrence alive, the garden helps monarch butterflies during their annual migration…