Not long ago, Mueller Memorial served someone from the Wild’s “Team of 18,000” as well as a fervent citizen of “Twins Territory”. This gave us on-the-glass seats to witness the way these larger than life teams pause to recognize a single special voice no longer shouting from the crowd.

When Elaine Arnold died just before the Twins season opener in 2013, her daughter, Lynne Arnold-Walker (pictured), came into the Mueller White Bear Lake funeral home location and saw the officially licensed Twins cremation urn. Lynne and her husband Jon (also pictured) knew right away that this was the perfect urn for Elaine.

This year, for the Twins home opener on April 7 th , almost a year to the date after Elaine’s death, Mueller Memorial posted a blog entry about this wonderful woman who had spent many of her 84 years being a “couch coach” for the Minnesota Twins.

A few days later we received a call from Jim Anderson of the Minneapolis Star Tribune asking for more information about Elaine and the Twins urn and casket we have on display at the Mueller Memorial St. Paul funeral home.

Jim along with Richard Sennott put together the story and pictures that ran in the April 19 th edition of the paper under the title, “Products made for die-hard Twins fans – to the end.” Lynne and her family were so excited that a major newspaper was paying their respects to Elaine’s fandom.

But it didn’t stop there.

The day the article came out David St. Peter, President of the Minnesota Twins, tweeted: