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[NoelSeven]

On 3/11/2015 Preds said:

I learned that I didn't want to be like my grandmothers. I loved them, but they were very selfish, cold, spiteful women.

Guess what?

You're nothing like that

[ROMARY]

Loved her garden and beautiful flowers....

[ROMARY]

Good grandmas bring back precious memories......

[NoelSeven]

My mother's mother had been a suffragette, as they were called back in the day, and fought for a woman's right to vote.

During WW2, in San Francisco, she did what she could to protect her Japanese-American friends.

Later, she moved to a more rural area of Northern California where she had relatives and worked with Native Americans to protect the burial sites of their ancestors. I used to stay with her there during the Summer when I was little.

What a role model she was.

[ROMARY]

Wow, Noel..........I've always been very compassionate re: Native Americans, (and others, of course), their history, etc. Thanks for this.

[RedHeadedWench]

How to love their grandchildren. Something my mother(her daughter) did not learn. She also taught me to sew, cook, embroider, and many other life skills. My great grandmother taught me how to crochet on my fingers.

[NoelSeven]

On 3/11/2015 ROMARY 1 said:

Wow, Noel..........I've always been very compassionate re: Native Americans, their history, etc. Thanks for this.

I remember it well. Some of her friends had a smokehouse where they smoked the salmon they caught. It was dark and had the most incredible smell. I ran free all the time with the kids and we all showed up at the smokehouse for breakfast. The men would break off a hunk of salmon for us and we'd eat it right there with the oil dripping down our chins.

I remember a meeting on her front porch between tribal leaders and anthropologists who wanted to dig up the burial sites. I remember the sheriff there with his rifle against the porch fence, and my grandmother telling me to go inside.

The end of that story was the dig was not allowed on tribal land.

[loveschocolate]

My maternal grandmother taught me how to make homemade bread from scratch. She took up ballroom dancing after my grandpa died. She learned to drive. She loved shoes!!! She remarried in 1988 and died 4 years ago at age 97. She knew how to live life!!!

[ROMARY]

Wow, Noel. You should print out your two posts, and make some sort of a diary or booklet (or whatever), vividly describing your memories...........

[NoelSeven]

On 3/11/2015 ROMARY 1 said:

Wow, Noel. You should print out your two posts, and make some sort of a diary or booklet (or whatever), vividly describing your memories...........