|
Mom with her brothers
From left to right: Dan (back row), Art, Ray, Alan (back row),
Gwen (my mom), and Don.
Mom is the oldest of Grandma's surviving children. Next oldest
is Ray, Art, Alan, Don, and then Dan, who is just two years
older than I am.
Grandma's oldest child, my Uncle Glenn, died of AIDS in 1993.
It still seems wrong to have a family group picture without
him in it.
Altogether, Grandma had ten children, but of those deceased, I
only knew Glenn. Mom was not my grandmother's only girl, there
were three more that died before I was born. Vera died of crib
death (now called, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, or SIDS).
Evelyn and Elizabeth both died in a house fire.
The full list of Grandma's ten children, in order, is Glenn,
Gwen, Vera, Evelyn, Ray, Elizabeth, Art, Alan, Don, and Dan.
|
