What is something that reminds you of your Grandma?

Pink Biz said:
i never knew my grandmothers. They both were deceased when I was born. The first letters of both my first and middle names is the same as their first names. I have several photos of each of them.

My paternal grandmother had a heart condition since birth and was not considered "good marriage material" in her small Eastern European town. So she wound up marrying her first cousin, a quiet and shy man. She was known to be a fabulous baker, and lived to be in her eighties!

Mom's mom died relatively young at 52. She was a sweet and gentle woman who was very devoted to family and took in boarders (my grandpa's many relatives) as they came to America from the old country.
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Both my maternal and paternal Grannies' had the same first name, so as the first girl, I was given it as a middle name...
 
Murrmurr said:
It's sad your parents put you through that. But the up-side is that you got to know your grandmother for who she was. Plus, you learned how not to "Grandma".
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My Mom made us continue to visit them so my Dad wouldn't be hurt more.Now I am a grandmother of 3 precious grandchildren.They are my world and I love them more than anything in the world.They are my hearts.
 
I don't have anything which belonged to my granny, sadly...however I do have a newspaper clipping with her picture and news item which she was in about 1980, not long before she died..

The media were doing a piece on the price of coal.. and wanted to take an average pensioner who might be struggling with the cost of keeping warm... so they wrapped her up in a shawl and made her look like the little old white haired woman that we as a family almost didn't recognise in the article ..but she felt she needed to do it on behalf of all pensioners..
 
hollydolly said:
I don't have anything which belonged to my granny, sadly...however I do have a newspaper clipping with her picture and news item which she was in about 1980, not long before she died..

The media were doing a piece on the price of coal.. and wanted to take an average pensioner who might be struggling with the cost of keeping warm... so they wrapped her up in a shawl and made her look like the little old white haired woman that we as a family almost didn't recognise in the article ..but she felt she needed to do it on behalf of all pensioners..
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This reminds me of the only thing I have from my Mom's Dad. It is also a newspaper clipping that was put in when he was 85yrs old and missing.
 

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