Can I make just one more post about my grandmother?
Yesterday, after the funeral, there was a reception at the church. I was speaking to my aunt, (my mother’s sister), and mentioned it was a shame Grandma didn’t vote this year, as it would have been her 22nd straight Presidential election.
See, Grandma told me, about three months ago, she didn’t plan on voting because she hadn’t kept up well enough with the news. Guess she changed her mind, because my aunt to me that her own grand-daughter, Grandma’s great-granddaughter, was authorized to help her with the ballot and she did vote.
Isn’t that cool? Even now, when folks can vote at eighteen, you’d have to live to 102 to beat that record! She was exercising her rights less than three weeks before she died!
Baker, I think it’s beyond awesome that your grandmother voted so long and so regularly.
I’d like to think that it gave her special pleasure to help keep Jack Wu off the state school board, given her life as a teacher.*
*note to others reading: this is not a partisan blast. Jack Wu is a nutter and a member of the WBC. Our ultra-conservative Governor refused to support Wu in any way, nevermind the ® beside his name.
Baker that is indeed cool and awesome! Especially when we consider that your grandmother actually witnessed the passage of the 19th amendment which gave women the right to vote.