2024-03-04
paternal grandfather: the most stoic and soft spoken man you’ll ever meet. a real sweetheart. died this weekend in his mid 90s.
paternal grandmother: larger than life family matriarch. one the great loves of my life. things fell apart after she died. mid-2010s.
maternal grandfather: just as tall and broad as both of my paternal grandparents were small and skinny. cheated on my grandmother with the woman who would become his first wife. brought a woman home from the war and left his wife. theirs lasted and they had tons of kids and grandkids. then when she died he went back to living with his first wife again until he died of dementia, early 2010s
maternal step-grandmother: the woman from the war. knew her my whole life. very sweet woman. died late 2000s.
maternal grandmother: spiteful, narcissistic, crazy as a loon. everybody loves her, but ain’t nobody can stand her for that long. her daughters turned out fine but I can’t hardly see how. the only one left now at the time of this writing.
maternal step-grandfather: a real wiseass and a lifelong athlete. charming, handsome, and funny. he and my grandmother can’t stand each other, but they insisted on staying together for some reason nobody can understand. lyme disease made him very uncomfortable and very angry later in life. died mid-2010s