i'm finnally ready to talk about a subject thats been on my mind lately....i'm sure some of you don't like dabbing around the idea of death (like me for example) but it is a fact of life.....some of you know i went to texas 2 weeks ago while we had the freak snow storm around here and had trouble on the way back (i complained about getting stuck on the way back a few times in the snow and ice ) the reason i went to tx was i had a great-great grandmother that passed away at 103 yrs of age 2 days after thanksgiving.....she lived here with my grandparents, they didn't want her in a nursing home and her funeral was in tx.....actually she was more then a great-great grandmother to me, she was like just a grandmother....see my grandparents raised me since i was 12 yrs old and i was raised around her and i was close to her.....and so were my kids(foster kids)......since having them, we would go and see her atleast 1 time a week( heck she was very supportive of my fostering the kids) 103 yrs old think of all the technological advances she has seen....when she was a child, she went across the country in a horse pulled wagon....she was around for the early discoveries that we take for advantage now....think about it.....cars, planes, the microwave, washer & dryers, paved roads, heating and a/c, just about anything you can think of ..... she had also lived thru cancer surgery(they had to remove half of her lower jaw a few yrs back, she had brain surgery around 10yrs ago, she had survived 2 husbands, the great depression, she made the local tabloids for sowing cloths for the soldiers during ww1 & ww2.....she was an inspiration for those who knew her, she was never selfish.......here's a few pics of her.....the first pic is from her 103 b-day last august and the second is at my wedding 4 yrs ago..... i'm not looking for sympathy from anyone and i'm sorry if i upset anyone......i just felt the need to say a few things from a great woman.....
The Japanese have the respect to call their old people "living national treasures" and your great great grandmother sounds like she was one. God bless her and may she rest in peace.
Wow 103. sorry for your loss. People that are of that time/gen. sure have seen alot and lived threw some history.
Sorry to hear about your loss. She seemed like a great woman that accomplished a lot of things over her life. We visited the Philippines this summer and here is my dad with his aunt. She's 105 years old and still goin strong. What really supprised us is when we came, she remember my dad. She hasn't seen him in over 20 years.
yes, she was great....i remember on yr when i was in my middle teens, i went to stay with her for 2 weeks during the summer time in tx....we had a blast i got her to pose on her car(wasn't a mustang though.... lol)....she taught me to play domino's....she's a shark.....lol
