A social media plea for a missing quilt is entering its eighth month without a response.
Whitney Lafrenz posted the message about the lost quilt made from T-shirts garnered the past 40 years by her mother, Faye Bremer of Luverne.
The quilt went missing more than a year ago.
“It was possibly left behind at a sporting event or marching band competition,” Lafrenz wrote.
“Mom did travel to Nashville around the time it went missing, so there’s a possibility. But more likely it was lost in the Midwest.”
Bremer received the hand-made quilt from her children for Christmas in 2016, and it represents more than 40 years of memories for the family.
It’s constructed using 24 T-shirts from Geneva Beach Resort in Alexandria, a longtime vacation destination for her husband, Gordy Bremer’s, family.
Faye attended her first Bremer family vacation at the resort in 1976, and Lafrenz grew up going spending time there.
“The draw to Geneva Beach Resort is that no matter what age our family is, everyone enjoys it,” Lafrenz said.
For years Geneva Beach Resort T-shirts were purchased to preserve memories of the weeklong stays.
And once the T-shirts were outgrown or no longer wanted by users as a souvenir, Faye would collect the shirts.
“Some of those shirts really rolled through the whole family,” Lafrenz said.
Many date back 20 to 30 years.
Bremer took the full-sized blanket everywhere, primarily at her eight grandchildren’s events.
“It was a soccer quilt, the baseball quilt — she really used it which is how this happened and it went missing,” Lafrenz said. “We don’t know exactly when it went missing.”
The quilt was last seen when Bremer traveled to Nashville, Tennessee.
After months of searching for the quilt themselves, Lafrenz wrote about the loss on her social media page in March.
She reshared the post in late November when no one responded.
“You wonder if someone just found it and donated it or, worst case, it got thrown away. That would really be too bad,” Lafrenz said.
“It’s hard to believe if someone found it with all those shirts and with all the resources we have now, they’d google Geneva Beach Resort and send them a message, ‘Hey, this looks important to somebody,’ or something like that.”
Faye Bremer (pictured below, laying the quilt she received as a Christmas gift in 2016) is missing the quilt that family members are asking the public to help find.
