How old is your oldest living sibling....

My only oldest brother is 69. I recently sent him a birthday gift of 12 jars of jams, picked beets, sweet relish , zucchini relish, bread & butter pickles and maple syrup.
I lost a brother in 1979. :(
 
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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.
 
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