My paternal grandmother holding little 15-month-old me in 1949. You can see the stockings and shoes. And check out that hat!
1961, on the right. It is that placid, kind expression I remember best. She lived another eight years and died at 97, I believe. She is with her first born child, Effie. Are there any Effies anymore??
My maternal grandmother in 1929, still in the thick of raising her ten kids. At this point her oldest was in his twenties and her youngest was four. Unbelievable.
In 1961. Much the same sort of dress as thirty years earlier. She died four years after this photo, at 81.
What wonderful memories, I love the old photos. Your blog header is mighty pretty too.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Tina!!
DeleteWhat fun to have these old photos. They remind me of my Grandmother too. I barely knew my paternal grandmother and my maternal grandmother died when my Mom was 8.
ReplyDeleteI do love the pictures. How very sad for your mother.
DeleteThis generation (the baby boomers) seem so much younger than their forebears, don't they Nan? We really don't know how lucky we are. Better general health, not quite so much hard work - and yet, and yet....... Your grandparents lived to ripe old ages!
ReplyDeleteAnd my grandfather lived to be 94 or so. Drank and smoked!
DeleteGreat Pictures, thank you for sharing them! When I read about your grandmothers, all of a sudden I miss mine very much. I must admit I have not been thinking about her in a while, but she was VERY present throughout my childhood and youth, and it was great to live nearby during those years.
ReplyDeleteLucky for all of you. I'm sure you made her last years truly wonderful.
DeleteI love the old-fashioned grandmothers! They all had white or blued hair back then. It was a simpler time--well, maybe not, but at least they weren't encouraged to have plastic surgery.
ReplyDeletePlastic surgery is plain crazy as far as I'm concerned. Fat lips, stiff faces. It doesn't make one any less 85 if there are no wrinkles! Haha!
DeleteWonderful photos! I'm inspired to do the same sort of post... I am lucky to have a 5-generation picture (my daughter, me, my mom, my grandmother and my great-grandmother). Good genes in this family of mine!
ReplyDeleteLucky! Of course some of it is when the women had the children. One of my grandmothers had kids for about 25 years, so she was a lot older when the youngest was born!
DeleteFirst let me say that I do love your header! It calls for me to walk up it and see what it leads to. Is this on your farm? What does it lead to?
ReplyDeleteI love all the photos of your grammies! Yes, sweet faces. And of course she wore a hat, women knew back then to protect their skin from the sun. So your maternal grandmother had 10 children, how many did your paternal grandmother have?
Can you imagine! I mean, talk about super women, they were.
You are about the age of my little sister!
Thank you! Yes, it is on the farm. It goes up into our woods. My paternal grandmother had 8. One died at 27 from TB.
DeleteThey were all superwomen back then. I so admire them.
One of my grandmothers looked like yours. She lived on a farm, raised 8 children, including one with developmental delays, and lost another as an infant due to failure to thrive. My paternal grandmother was a bit of a fashion diva.
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