Here's who my mother learned all her tricks from, her Greek father, who died about 15 years ago of well earned lung cancer:
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In a picture taken by J when he was about 6 years old, here are three generations; my grandmother died last Spring when she was almost 87 years old:
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This is one of my favorite old pictures ever - my fire-headed ex-MIL with her incredible Daddy in the background.
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This is my gggg grandmother. I posted her husband previously.
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And this is their daughter. She is the g g'ma of my grandmother shown above.
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Here's my father accompanying his mother during the funeral for his father about a year and a half ago. I was struck by how old they looked; she's my last grandparent and nutty as a loon.
4 comments:
what great old pictures!!! I love looking at these.
I love the old photos. You did a good job again finding images for "the hunt". You always give 100% effort and that is a great quality.
Those are wonderful! I want to grab that little doll-like girl perched on the arm of the chaise and tell her to be careful :-)
Funerals do that to people...
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