The DanMyrna Foundation was formed to honor the deceased mother and brother of founder Ken Hendry of Hendry & Associates, landscape lighting and aquatic experts. The Foundation assists the families of fallen police, fire, service men and women and has created memorial ponds in Michigan, Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina and continues to do others today.

The DanMyrna Foundation was proud to build a memorial pond for the wife and daughters of Deputy Sheriff Kevin Carper of the Spartanburg, South Carolina Sheriff’s office. Deputy Kevin Carper was shot and killed during a foot pursuit of a suspect who fled during a traffic stop. Deputy Carper had served with the Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Office for
12 years.

 

The placement of 9 tons of boulders, 3 tons of washed pebbles, mulch, top soil were used for the completion of the pond. Plants such as blue spreading rush, gold strike rush, and red canna, were then added to finish off the manicured look leaving the backyard pond looking like it had been there for ages.

Ken gathered the help of many local landscape contractors, nursery suppliers, and citizens to build a memorial pond in the yard of the family of Deputy Carper. The idea was to give his wife and three daughters a place to sit and remember Deputy Carper in a tranquil and serene bit of paradise in a busy and often tragic world.

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