I Have Lost All My Grandfolk

My husband and I were blessed to have had all of our grandparents attend our wedding.  Our most treasured picture of the day shows the eight of them standing behind us, representing more than 200 years of marriage.   Talk...

Was the last funeral I attended. Was my dad's dad funeral. He was the last living grandparent from that world war II generation.

My last Grandad died in 1991 aged 92, the other grandad passed away in 1986 aged 72. Iv never seen any of my grannies, i dont miss any of them because i was too young to remember unfortunately

Gone are the Grandparents that I learned so much fra, and the things they taught are mine tae keep and yet I hae none tae pass them down to. But the last tae cross over was the mother o my Da, and she is the ain whose work I carry on...

As the last of a large brood of children, three of my grandparents were already dead when I was born. I met my maternal grandfather once, when I was five. He was in his nineties, but still living independently. We lived quite far from...

I never really knew my Grandfathers.  They died when I was 4 and 5 years old.  I remember them, but only by pictures.  I have a sense of who they were, and that sense is quite accurate, I'm told, but I never knew them enough.My...

Now that I'm older, I really wish that I had my grandparents to talk to and ask them about some of their life experiences. I've had some dreams in the last couple of years about my grandparents at one time or another. Sometimes, it's...

I do not really know what I expect to get from this but I thought I would share.  I am the youngest of four, I am 19 and my parents are 57.  I always remembered while growing up I feared the death of my parents.  I...

My father's father passed away before I was born, and I only know little facts about him.

My mother's mother (who was, amusingly, younger by a year than my own father), was not allowed near us because she was some sort of witch or...

hey, grandpa? remember all those times i came over to your house when i was younger? remember how i used to pretend i was making you lots of yummy treats in those plastic containers me and john loved so much?
hey, grandpa? do you...

I lost my grand parents ..the last one in 1989 .. my Grandmother ... me Grandfather Alexander passed in 1953 from a clot in his leg from a WAR wound from WWI ... then from my father's side ..Christian succumed to Cancer ... a few months...

Both of my parents' parents divorced when mom & dad vere very young.  They each remarried new spouses and voila- I had 8 grandparents! My great grandparents had all expired by the time I was a teen but I was able...

The house I grew up in was a duplex - my grandmother lived on one side, and we lived on the other.
Her husband had died a year before I was born, so I never knew that grandfather. My dad's parents lived across the country. I met them...

I lost three of my grandparents at the age of 8, the three of them died within 9 months of each other.  All of Cancer.
My surviving grandmother at this time had Alzheimer's for two years by this stage and therefore was unaware of...

I too have lost all of my grandparents (and both parents as well)..   My mom's dad had the GREATEST impact on my life.  I was his only granddaughter and we had a special bond no one else in the family shared.  He was...