| I just got back from a short trip to my hometown of Rochester, NY. Sadly the main event was a memorial service for my Grandmother. Parents and Grandparents fall on a bell curve just like everything else. We have an ideal of what they're suppose to be like but many times they don't follow the trend. My Grandmother was everything a Grandmother is suppose to be: gentle, loving, great cook, great sense of humor, smart as a whip and could remember in amazing detail almost any facet of her life and experience. I'm one of those smart asses that seems to know all the answers from history to sports trivia. Grandma was one of the few people who could one up me every time, I loved her dearly and will miss her deeply. She lived a long and relatively healthy life of 91 years. She was born during WWI, she grew up during the depression only completing 8th grade because her parents needed her to help raise her younger brothers and sisters. She was raised in Geneva, NY, spent a few years in Oakridge, Tn while Grandpa was working on the Manhattan Project and then spent the rest of her adult life in the same house on Electric Ave. in Rochester. She was a charter member of the Greatest Generation. She completed Nursing school at 50 after her children were all grown. 4 children, 11 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren are her legacy A truly amazing woman and matriarch. Rest in Peace Grandma Bea no one has earned rest and peace more than you..... |
