Did any of you not know any of your grandparents?
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Did you even think about it as a kid, or that was simply your normal? Did your parents talk about their parents?
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My dad didn’t know his grandparents. He one time supposedly saw his maternal grandfather in a building, someone told him that was his grandpa. His paternal grandparents never came to the US, and probably were killed in the Holocaust if they were still alive before the genocides. Probably, a lot of his peers didn’t know all or some of their grandparents.
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I was shocked as a toddler that I had four grandparents. Amazed me. I didn’t know any of my family members names, until I was 5. For a time I thought that my mom’s name was mom.
I knew ¾ grandparents. Forth died before I was born.
I had a very active life with all 4 of my grandparents plus 2 step grands for my whole childhood. I was an adult when the first one passed on, and a grandmother myself when the last one passed.
My maternal grandfather died of cancer before I was born. My mother adored him, but what I understand from the other relatives was that he was a real POS, who had mistresses and a gambling problem and bankrupted his family when he died. I likely have relatives I have never met in this area.
I’m glad I don’t have conflicting memories of him.
Mainly, I just knew my grandmother on my mother’s side.
Although my family did live with my father’s parents for almosta year, my grandfather hated me, and my grandmother that was his wife, was more of an old south wife who was practically a slave to him.
My “Granny” (mother’s side,) was a great woman, and she lived me VERY much…
She passed away, from cancer in her spine, and as it was during the Covid years, we couldn’t even see her before she died…
She was suffering terribly, from dementia mainly, and I have no recourse but to accept the horrible end of her precious life…
Christmas was a time of year, we would have tried to be with her no matter what…
She was a very religious woman, and I faked being religious around her. I even attempted to pray for things she told me to pray about.
Mainly, because I didn’t want to disappoint her.
I knew both my grandmothers and they lived for a good while before passing. My dad’s mother remarried and so I knew her husband as Grandpa Nathan but I never knew my original grandfather on that side. My mom’s father died at an early age due to poor health so I don’t remember him at all, although my brother does. I also knew my nanny, my great grandmother on my dad’s side, who lived quite a while.
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