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Grandma with a smile
Because Grandma hates to have her picture taken getting a picture
with her smiling is somewhat of an achievement. I took 18 pictures
of Grandma on her birthday and she is only smiling in 3 of them…
and she was distracted by the television for one of those three
shots. I guess taking group pictures (shown on page 9 and 10) where
the group could see the TV showing the World Series wasn't such a
great idea.
Grandma has an interesting family history, although there are more
skeletons hidden in her family tree closet than she wanted anyone
to know about. She never told us, her children, grandchildren, and
so on, about her family history, I had to find it on my own.
When I began researching our family history, almost immediately, I
started to find those family closet secrets that Grandma never
told us about. Since then, Grandma has been talking with me about
it. I will not go into details here and now but her side of the
family story will be told one day.
By the way, Grandma's genealogy stretches back to the original 13
English colonies here in America. I also found that her late
husband, my late grandfather, also traces back to colonial
American times, but not quite as far back as Grandma's family does.
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These two pictures of Grandma were taken near the middle of the
party, just after dinner on October 23, 2005. On the next pages I
display the birthday pictures more or less in the order they were
taken.
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