Thread: How old is your granny?

Mine's 101.

Funny story, to me anyway. In 1984 I supported the wrong guy for business agent in my home Ironworker's Local Union, so I had to find another state to work in when my guy lost the election. I went up to north NJ 'cause they had a lot of work. I walked into Local 11 in Newark and went over to sign the list. The assistant BA snatched the book out from under my hand and said, "Who are ya ?"

I told him my name and what local I was from and he said , "Are you on the level ?" I was somewhat taken aback, and I said, "Well yeah !" He said,"Go sit down and I'll focus right in on ya." I sat on the bench for about a week before I got sent out. Ended up working in the Northeast district for some years. Got out of the biz and began tattooing professionally for a couple of decades +.

Few years ago I met a guy from the Newark local who was a member there way back then and knew all of the personalities. I told him what happened with McGrath, the assistant BA. He said, when he told you 'Are you on the level, you should have said 'I'm on the square.' Then he would have said 'How old is your grandma ?' You know the rest.

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??

Originally Posted by Phrank

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.

She's 86 and lives in Trenton Tn.

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.

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?"

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!!

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.

Dad's 87, so if granny would still be alive, 118. Tc