Tag: grandfather
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July 22, 2009 03:15 PM EDT --
My grandfather was like the ones you read in stories, or see in movies. My earliest memories of him are when I was around five or six. My parents had divorced, and we had moved from Chicago . . .
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February 12, 2007 06:50 AM EST --
When I was five, my grandfather was six feet tall, in a ten-gallon hat and spurs. He was a sheep man, a livestock broker. When the trains came in, he would go down to the livestock yard to see the sheep. . . .
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March 26, 2008 12:03 PM EDT --
Some of you have asked for more details about me.
So let me take you back those years to the time when I was 8 and the day that I became a man four times in one day.
There's a place, about 100 . . .
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March 12, 2009 06:00 AM EDT --
Hugh Morton was a fine man. He loved taking photos of the world around him. His world was "GrandFather Mountain" and his family. I am sure his family came first as I personally . . .
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August 28, 2007 11:22 AM EDT --
My grampa died almost 15 years ago and to this day there is still an ache in my heart for him. He was the father figure in my life and I respected him so much. I wish he would have been alive to meet his . . .
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February 29, 2008 10:09 AM EST --
If she were still living, Grandmother Clara would be thirty-three years old today. Wait, you say. How can that be? I, the granddaughter, am older than that. (But we won't go into my age.) Well, . . .
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July 26, 2008 06:03 PM EDT --
so when i got home from work on friday.. which was about 6:30ish.. my mom told me that my grandfather had to take my grandmother to the hospital.. she first complained that her arm was numb.. & a couple . . .
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October 15, 2008 05:27 AM EDT --
My grandfather's funeral was Sunday. He was a remarkable man, and not just because he lived to be 103. He had a never ending quest for knowledge and loved to tell stories. I am forever . . .
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November 06, 2008 10:19 PM EST --
Tonight I was watching a show where a lady signed a DNR (Do Not Resucitate) and it made me think of my grandfather.
I was his caregiver when he and my grandmother moved down near me in August of 2007. . . .
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April 15, 2009 02:20 PM EDT --
We lost my grandfather a couple of hours ago. I so appreciate all of you that have been keeping him in your prayers, and I ask that you continue to pray for my family in the days to come.
To those . . .
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July 10, 2009 03:03 PM EDT --
Wide awake, a static mind; an attempt
To leave a thought behind, but
Something, an oddness to be sure,
Like headaches; quite hard to
Endure,
Kept interrupting any thoughts, any
Attempts to . . .
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December 08, 2007 04:03 PM EST --
He died last night....I don't know what else to say....thought I would let you guys know.
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December 09, 2007 07:35 PM EST --
I have been on the phone with my mom twice...I want to get to my grandfathers funeral so bad. But she doesn't want me there. My Oma said she understood but that made me cry even more. I MISS HIM!!! . . .
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October 01, 2008 11:07 AM EDT --
The Morton family sold Grandfather Mountain in NC to the state For 12 million dollars. I used to attend church at Holy Cross Episcopal Church in Valley Crucis, nc with the Mortons . . .
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October 13, 2007 02:55 PM EDT --
One evening, I went to the play room and told my 10 year old grandson, Turtle, to turn off the TV. It was time for him to go home. He loudly replied the show was almost over. I quickly went to the . . .
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November 01, 2007 11:55 AM EDT --
My Grandfather came to this country in the early 1900's from the Philipines. He met and married my Grandmother an Irish Catholic. This was an unusual union to say the least. It didn't take long . . .
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November 22, 2007 06:32 PM EST --
Thanksgiving is here. It has been a rough 24 hours. Up at 4:00am Wednesday, put 11 hours at work, picked up the grandkids, a call my brother was in the hospital, quickly over drove and . . .
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March 07, 2009 02:54 PM EST --
Earlier this week, we got an urgent phone call from Florida that my maternal grandfather was in the hospital and that would probably not make through the week. My mother quickly got on . . .
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May 24, 2007 06:42 PM EDT --
How Do You Remember a Grandfather Long Gone?
By: Kathryn V. Wells
I can still see the last living memory of my grandfather. He was lying in that hospital bed, all skin and bone. . . .
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September 23, 2007 06:54 PM EDT --
My grandfather (called Pop) was a stocky, short white man with gold wire rimeglasses Though he was in his 70's at the time, he had excellent hearing.
We like to throw coins behind him and ask what . . .
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