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Category: Loss

Remembering Grandmum

Earlier today my paternal grandmother, Ruth Bertha Anning Hardy, took her final breath and joined my grandpa in heaven. She would have been 97 years young in June. My grandmum was born in England, UK, in 1922. She and my grandpa, Edwyn “John”, also from the UK, raised…

Euphan Helen Carter Goldsmith: 1935-2017

Early this morning the Lord took home a gem of a lady, my husband’s grandmother, Euphan Helen Carter Goldsmith.  Known to us as “Memaw,” known to many others as “Baby,” Memaw was an absolutely wonderful woman. Back in the day she and her husband…

Happy Trails, Uncle Jerry

Sunday mid-morning I received a devastating phone call from my father.  Jerry, my uncle, had passed away at 61 years old. Jerry wasn’t just my uncle.  He was my mom’s only brother and he had cerebral palsy.  At one point in my childhood I can…