# My Grandma died

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-grandma-died/630137>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 2, 2012, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-grandma-died/630137 "2012-08-02T02:43:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2012, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-grandma-died/630137/21 "2012-08-07T12:24:43Z")

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I’m so sorry for your loss, Zoid… ☹

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**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2012, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-grandma-died/630137/22 "2012-08-07T12:54:17Z")

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> [@zoid](#):
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> Mary Elizabeth Fleming Greifenkamp was 102 years old.  
> She raised 8 children after her loving husband died at a young age of a heart attack.  
> She saw them through wars, the great depression, good times, and bad.  
> She died August first, 2012. The exact same day her husband died years earlier.  
> She was grandmother to 26 grandchildren and 52 great-grandchildren.  
> She drank Chevas Regal on the rocks with a lemon peel twist. She drank rarely but when she did she was unashamed to say she deserved it.  
> She was active in her church her entire life and was faithful to the end.
> 
> She was stubborn but loving, generous to a fault, and more patient than any of us deserved.
> 
> She was my Grandmother.
> 
> I miss her.

A grand ol’ lady indeed, **zoid**.

You will miss her, always. I’ve missed my Great Grandma for almost four decades now; my grannies for 20 years. Doesn’t matter that you’re 45 - she was always your Grandmother, and somehow they always make you feel like a kid inside. So I think that along with mourning the loss of them, we wave goodbye to that little kid who always had their grandma.

Hugs.

And I don’t know about taking your twins to her funeral; knowing that she died is one thing, seeing a coffin is quite another. Take them to the wake. That’s the nice part.

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**Author:** ![LotusPotus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@LotusPotus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LotusPotus)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2012, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-grandma-died/630137/23 "2012-08-07T13:14:10Z")

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> [@zoid](#):
>
> Mary Elizabeth Fleming Greifenkamp was 102 years old.  
> She raised 8 children after her loving husband died at a young age of a heart attack.  
> She saw them through wars, the great depression, good times, and bad.  
> She died August first, 2012. The exact same day her husband died years earlier.  
> She was grandmother to 26 grandchildren and 52 great-grandchildren.  
> She drank Chevas Regal on the rocks with a lemon peel twist. She drank rarely but when she did she was unashamed to say she deserved it.  
> She was active in her church her entire life and was faithful to the end.
> 
> She was stubborn but loving, generous to a fault, and more patient than any of us deserved.
> 
> She was my Grandmother.
> 
> I miss her.

What a great lady your Grandmother was. I’m very sorry for your loss.

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**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2012, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-grandma-died/630137/24 "2012-08-07T19:37:05Z")

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I am sorry to hear your news. Sending supporting thoughts your way.

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