FREMONT, Mich. (WOOD) — A Newaygo County home decked out for the holidays will welcome visitors this weekend for a very special reason.
Terri Balder’s late father, Don Henderson, earned the nickname “Mr. Christmas” around Fremont Lake in the 1990s for his handcrafted, wooden Christmas decorations.
This year the Henderson yard came alive once again.
“I would hope he’d be smiling down from Heaven and saying, ‘What a beautiful job, Terri. What a beautiful job’. And then my mom would be saying, ‘Oh my gosh what did you do to my yard, Terri!’” Balder joked to News 8. “I think he’d be very proud of it and very happy to see how beautiful it is and how much support we’ve got from the community in this.”
Henderson died in 2014. His wife, Marian, passed just a few months ago.
It was Balder’s 16-year-old daughter who asked to bring out the decorations this year to honor her grandparents.
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