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Offline Pigslilspaz

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Re: Oldest personally know relative?
« Reply #15 on: April 08, 2012, 05:02:42 PM »
Great pig, maybe your grandma and my grandma knew each other during WW11?  My grandmother made bombs too!  Actually not bombs, she made shells that shot airplanes out of the sky.  Ack Ack factory in Kansas.

Sorta close, my gram gram has stayed in Grand Island NE almost all her life

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Re: Oldest personally know relative?
« Reply #16 on: April 09, 2012, 12:12:14 PM »
My Grandmother Born in 1889 Passed in 1991

Benjamin Harrison was president

She was.......22 when the Titanic sunk
She was.......42 when Japan Bombed Pearl
Hard to wrap my mind around what she saw in her life time..........neat thread OP  :aok

Err....she was 52 when Pearl was bombed  :rolleyes:
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Offline cpxxx

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Re: Oldest personally know relative?
« Reply #17 on: April 10, 2012, 10:33:56 AM »
My Mother I'd say, 86. I don't think any of the relatives I knew lived as long as her. She's still going, quite sprightly despite being hit by a car some years ago. My Father would have qualified if he was still around. But he died in 1991. Neither had much in the way of an exciting life. They watched WW2 from afar. Which I suppose was a good thing. A lot of young men who like my Father, turned 20 in 1944 found themselves on the frontline and many didn't come back. He never had to serve in the military. Lucky for me I think.