They lost a 4-year-old son. Now this Iowa farm family is building a regional grief-therapy center

Stables 4 Jed will be constructed and operated as a non profit in honor of the late Jed Riesselman

Jed Riesselman died in August 2021 in a farm accident near Manning at the age of 4. His final resting place, the family farm, will be the home for a new facility to assist people with grief, his parents, Rob and Megan Riesselman, said in an interview.

MANNING, Iowa

A wooden cross in a lovingly landscaped garden near the horse barn on this Manning farm marks the final resting place of Jed Riesselman, a little boy who carried an Avengers backpack on the school bus he couldn’t wait to board, smiled at the mention of M&Ms and bonded with a horse named Toby.

Jed is forever 4, the age at which the caprice of…