Four County Community Foundation

Hana St. Juliana Memorial Fund

In November 2022, the Hana St. Juliana Memorial Fund was founded with Four County Community Foundation by the teen’s family. One of the fund’s first projects was the creation of Hana’s Garden, a space designed to honor and remember Hana and three other teens who died in a November 2021 shooting at Oxford High School. Ground was broken for the project in August 2023 at Seymour Lake Township Park in Oxford Township and the garden was officially unveiled to the public on June 1, 2025. 

Donations from the community and corporate sponsorships were integral in the creation of Hana’s Garden. The space includes a water feature, lots of purple-hued plants in honor of Hana’s favorite color and various elements that represent the teen’s Japanese heritage. Groupings of four, including a water feature with four bowls, are echoed throughout the space to honor Hana and the other victims—Madisyn Baldwin, Tate Myre and Justin Shilling.

“This garden is a place of reflection and healing for the community,” Hana’s father, Steve St. Juliana, said at the event. He said they intend to host special events at the garden in conjunction with holidays and to mark the anniversary of the tragedy each November.

The garden’s initial concept was created by Chris Nordstrom of Ann Arbor-based Carlisle Wortman Associates who donated his time and talents toward the project. Detroit-based Smith Group, a world-renowned architectural firm, donated their services to create the garden’s final drawings and Heritage and Company, a landscape construction firm located in Oxford, oversaw site work for the project.

Steve St. Juliana said that their original plan was to create a memorial for Hana on a smaller scale but the success of an April 2022 fundraiser in Lake Orion prompted them to consider this larger project.

In addition to celebrating the lives of Hana, Madisyn, Tate and Justin, the Hana St. Juliana Memorial Fund intends to also support initiatives that can prevent a similar tragedy in the future. Donations to the fund have been directed towards the construction of the garden and continued community support will be used to maintain the garden and facilitate healing and prevention programs.

To see more photos from Hana’s Garden, visit https://www.facebook.com/hanastjuliana/ and https://likehana.org/.