Dear Grampie:
Well, it's been a long, long time since last I saw your face and you mine. It was almost forty years ago and alot has happened since that very sad day in Barrington.
You didn't have to wait long for your "Gertie" did you, Grampie? She missed you so much after approximately seven decades of being your beloved wife that she joined you before you had even been gone a year.
You'd both be surprised at all the many changes in our world today in the year 2007. I smile when I watch an old rerun of one of your favourite television shows "All in the Family." Now, one can easily get hundreds and hundreds of channels yet there's so little on there to interest me. I miss the "Andy Williams Show", the "Dinah Shore Show" and the "Ed Sullivan Show".........ones you may have enjoyed with Grammie.
The other day I smelled tobacco pipe and sat in awe while a man smoked his pipe; I thought of you. Two horses are now across the street from my house, grazing and happy together. I wish you were here to walk over with me to rub their sweet faces.
Tell Grammie how much I miss her lemon tarts, molasses cookies and rhubarb pie. Others make them now but with-out her touch of love and taste of faith and drop of affection, they just aren't as good.
You know, Bob Swim died; he owned the store that Albert Brown once had. There is no store anymore but Oak Park has one. Interestingly enough, it's owned and managed by my brother (Junior)'s wife. It would stun you to see how much Oak Park has grown, with a new High School, a car dealership, etc. Many lovely homes have gone up there recently too.
Most of us now write letters electronically instead of mailing them; a computer is a wealth of knowledge at one's fingertips. One can sit at home and read any newspaper in any language from all over the world, free. Families seldom sit down at mealtimes all together anymore; kids eat fast-foods from take-out restaurants and many mothers just cook big dinners on Sundays. I don't think as many people attend church as they used to.
Sports are a big deal these days and professional players are all millionaires or more. Kids play organized games and are chauffered by their parents. Nearly all complete High School and many go on to University. I don't know any "blacksmiths"; many professions now are automated and some people work from home. But an Undertaker's job hasn't changed that much!
We still only have one or two taxi's and schoolbuses around but many children have parents drive them to school; or drive themselves after age 16. Kids are dating younger and younger and many choose to have their children before marriage or never bother getting married at all. Sex is freely discussed and advertised though sexually transmitted disease's are prevalent.
Teddy Atwood is in charge of the Seventh Day Adventist Church now and he is a very honest, steady man of God. He visits one of your favourite grandchildren (Jean) in Yarmouth Hospital, as often as he can. Our family has lost a few members prematurely, namely Valerie at aged 46, Rodney at 72, Clifford Kendrick was just 50, I think and recently, Sherod's wife, Helen, 61. But God has been good to most of us and He continues to be my strength and safety net.
It broke my heart to lose you and then Grammie; then Mom and Daddy and my dear brother. Life has been so hard at times and so sad and lonely at others. None of your children are living. But then the sun shines and I breathe in the fresh, salt air and turn up some wonderful music and watch a falling star at night........and feel young and vibrant all over again.
Well, Grampie, I just was thinking about you today as I do often and wanted to say hello. Thank you for being my loving grandfather for the first twenty years of my life; I wish it could have been longer.
Your grand-daughter,
Heather
Well, it's been a long, long time since last I saw your face and you mine. It was almost forty years ago and alot has happened since that very sad day in Barrington.
You didn't have to wait long for your "Gertie" did you, Grampie? She missed you so much after approximately seven decades of being your beloved wife that she joined you before you had even been gone a year.
You'd both be surprised at all the many changes in our world today in the year 2007. I smile when I watch an old rerun of one of your favourite television shows "All in the Family." Now, one can easily get hundreds and hundreds of channels yet there's so little on there to interest me. I miss the "Andy Williams Show", the "Dinah Shore Show" and the "Ed Sullivan Show".........ones you may have enjoyed with Grammie.
The other day I smelled tobacco pipe and sat in awe while a man smoked his pipe; I thought of you. Two horses are now across the street from my house, grazing and happy together. I wish you were here to walk over with me to rub their sweet faces.
Tell Grammie how much I miss her lemon tarts, molasses cookies and rhubarb pie. Others make them now but with-out her touch of love and taste of faith and drop of affection, they just aren't as good.
You know, Bob Swim died; he owned the store that Albert Brown once had. There is no store anymore but Oak Park has one. Interestingly enough, it's owned and managed by my brother (Junior)'s wife. It would stun you to see how much Oak Park has grown, with a new High School, a car dealership, etc. Many lovely homes have gone up there recently too.
Most of us now write letters electronically instead of mailing them; a computer is a wealth of knowledge at one's fingertips. One can sit at home and read any newspaper in any language from all over the world, free. Families seldom sit down at mealtimes all together anymore; kids eat fast-foods from take-out restaurants and many mothers just cook big dinners on Sundays. I don't think as many people attend church as they used to.
Sports are a big deal these days and professional players are all millionaires or more. Kids play organized games and are chauffered by their parents. Nearly all complete High School and many go on to University. I don't know any "blacksmiths"; many professions now are automated and some people work from home. But an Undertaker's job hasn't changed that much!
We still only have one or two taxi's and schoolbuses around but many children have parents drive them to school; or drive themselves after age 16. Kids are dating younger and younger and many choose to have their children before marriage or never bother getting married at all. Sex is freely discussed and advertised though sexually transmitted disease's are prevalent.
Teddy Atwood is in charge of the Seventh Day Adventist Church now and he is a very honest, steady man of God. He visits one of your favourite grandchildren (Jean) in Yarmouth Hospital, as often as he can. Our family has lost a few members prematurely, namely Valerie at aged 46, Rodney at 72, Clifford Kendrick was just 50, I think and recently, Sherod's wife, Helen, 61. But God has been good to most of us and He continues to be my strength and safety net.
It broke my heart to lose you and then Grammie; then Mom and Daddy and my dear brother. Life has been so hard at times and so sad and lonely at others. None of your children are living. But then the sun shines and I breathe in the fresh, salt air and turn up some wonderful music and watch a falling star at night........and feel young and vibrant all over again.
Well, Grampie, I just was thinking about you today as I do often and wanted to say hello. Thank you for being my loving grandfather for the first twenty years of my life; I wish it could have been longer.
Your grand-daughter,
Heather
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