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    barba crescit caput nescit Phrank's Avatar
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    My grandmother died at 97, she didn't smoke or drink.

    Her sister, my Aunt Pate, smoked and drank a little, she died at 100 on the nose.

    My Aunt Flo, drank like a Viking, smoked three packs of Rothmans a day, until she physically couldn't inhale that many, and cut down to 1 pack, lived to 104. She was a force to be reckoned with, graduated from University at 89.

    And Jimmy, was your BA a Mason??

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    Quote Originally Posted by Phrank View Post
    And Jimmy, was your BA a Mason??
    Yeah, I had a co-worker (ironworker) who was Knights Of Columbus and he was always foul rapping Masons. Called them 'A-Framers.' They certainly stick together.
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    She's 86 and lives in Trenton Tn.

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    Lost my Grandmother at 92 while I was in Vietnam. She and Grandpa were dry land wheat farmers in Mo. She grew ditch weed (hemp) for the war effort through the early 1940's. They also grew some tobacco. My mother told me that on some summer evenings my Grandmother and a few of the ladies from adjoining farms would sit around in front of the barn and smoke some of the ditch weed and tobacco in their corncob pipes. They also had a touch of shine that one of the ladies would bring with her.
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    If I take your question right....one grandma is 80 and the other is 501.
    Enid 80 and Garfield 501. I'm used to the question being "Are you a traveling man?"

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    87. We just moved her into a retirement home. She has trouble walking and getting around, but she's still as sharp as a tack!

    Can't believe the crap we pulled out of her crawl space..... like bags and bags of...... plastic bags!!! What the hang!!
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    Since both Grandmas have long since past, one past before I was born, I'm hard pressed to even estimate what their ages would have been today. But since I am now at an age that I know passes where they were when they passed it tends to sober me. Received, just today, a letter from a young Granddaughter asking for ancestral info for a school project she's working on. That, in itself, casts a very sober caul on my current events.
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    Dad's 87, so if granny would still be alive, 118. Tc
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    My grandmother (still alive one grandmother on my father's side) 91. It was October 26.
    When my family and I came to congratulate her on her birthday, we had a surprise.
    She was done cutting in the garden three old trees. Uprooted stumps and roots. All neatly cut and stacked firewood. Oh, my God. She said that she was bored sitting in the house.
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    She is 128 and came from the West. Seems there are a lot of straight razor users that love even older traditions huh?
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