How old is your oldest living sibling....

feywon said:
Sounds like my now deceased eldest sister, 10 yrs o!der. I could count with fingers left over on my hands the number of times we talked on the phone (mostly when my family and i were caring for our terminally ill DAD. She didn't write letters or send cards. But for she was alive i knew i aways had a safety net; That i could show up with kids and critters in tow and be welcomed.

A couple of years later the 2nd oldest, 8 yrs my senior died. So have i have just one older sibling left, either 5 or 6 and a quarter yrs older-- always sensitive about her she may have fudged it by a year. (She's the one i've talked about who when we lived in same city wanted me to dye my greying hair cause 'everybody knows you are my younger sister'.)

We email and call. She always had some memory issues (for more than one reason) but it is getting worse.
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No one knows where Hoover is most of the time, not even his kids. He moves around all over the country. You can only be certain he's somewhere remote. When he helped me move back to Sac, he showed up out of the blue. Obviously someone told him I was moving, but he didn't say who or how they got a hold of him. But he was clear about why he came to help; he was hoping I'd give him our grandad's six-shooter. And I did. Gramps would have been happy about it.

Hoov didn't have to do anything for it. I'd have given him the pistol any time he asked, but he felt he should do something for me first; something significant. That's how he operates. He was thrilled when I told him he saved me $350 on a U-haul. And, of course, he was thrilled to have the pistol. He hunts, fishes, & traps most of his table meat, but also, he treasured Gramps just as much as I did.
 
Pappy said:
Same here old medic. My wife was one of 15 children. Gets cold on the farm at night….😄
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My father was one of 16 children... about half of them died in childbirth as babies... this was all between 1918 and 1946... the babies born in the early part of the century were the ones who didnt survive..
My father was born in '26.. he had 2 siblings born before him who survived..and at least 5 that didn't ...,,they were dirt poor and couldn't afford doctors back then...this was long before the NHS
 
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hollydolly said:
My goodness what a horrible shock that must have been to you....
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I hope my post did not imply that they all died at the same time. Each were several years apart, but they were between 62 and 68 yrs old at their date of death. The shock came when I realized that I was the last one standing. All 3 deaths were totally unexpected, so I am happy when I wake up each day.
 
Kika said:
I hope my post did not imply that they all died at the same time. Each were several years apart, but they were between 62 and 68 yrs old at their date of death. The shock came when I realized that I was the last one standing. All 3 deaths were totally unexpected, so I am happy when I wake up each day.
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No I didn't imagine they all died at the same time, but to lose them one after the other in their 60's I would have imagine would have been a shock
 
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