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Originally Posted by Sandy G
If you can, & she's able, get her to tell you what things were like back then...Mine really died in '86 when she fell & broke her hip, & never really came out of the anastetic...She was in the nursing home from then on, & her mind was active for awhile...Lotsa times, they can remember 75, 80 yrs ago clear as a bell, but 5 minutes ago never happened...
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Been there, done that. Even better would be to get her to write lots of stuff down so that when she's gone, there is a written document for future generations of family members. My dad's dad came to the US as a 10-year-old refugee from E. Europe (in 1913!). When he was alive, my paternal grandma made him write down details of his trip to America in the bottom of a ship that arrived in Baltimore, MD. Gramps grew up to become the first radio engineer in this area. He was into radio and tubes when it was still called "wireless". His tube stock, technical manuals, Sams Photofacts, and even his radio operator's study guide from 1924, are still in the family.
