Grandma Ruby
As I was typing that last post I received a phone call from my dad. My Dear Great Grandma Ruby, just shy of age 98, passed away this morning. We knew this was coming, and she has been ready to go for some time now, but it still hurts. I don’t think I ever would have felt like I had enough time with her. I can almost describe her using one word: JOY. All the time, she oozed joy. Joy and love. When you walked into the room her eyes would light up and you would forget you were talking with someone who had lived nearly 10 decades. Her spirit never grew old. She remembered stories of her childhood like they had happened yesterday. She loved oatmeal, and I always felt kindred to her for that reason. Our shared love of oatmeal was proof that I was, in fact, related to this wonderful woman of God. Ah, well, what more can I say? We will all miss her so much.
This picture is of her and my grandpa (her son) on her 96th birthday.
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October 12th, 2005 at 9:41 pm
Thank you Mindy, for the beautiful words, and the darling photo of Dad and Grandma. How do you come up with these things so quick?
October 12th, 2005 at 10:53 pm
What a wonderful life. I hope I live a long time too. I have too many things that I still have to do……one of them is become famous with Dave for our awesome coverage of MAC football and basketball. Then there is all the babysitting I have to do for all the grandkids that will be coming.
October 13th, 2005 at 8:43 am
Thank you for the picture. I’ve been saving Jenny’s baby pictures on my desktop, but I changed it out to put great grandma and grandpa on it.
October 13th, 2005 at 8:58 am
I just happened to have a copy of that picture on my Comcast server. Isn’t technology wonderful sometimes? I have a great picture at home of me at a young age sitting on Grandma Ruby’s lap. She was reading me a book as I snarfed down a piece of string cheese. Cute.
October 13th, 2005 at 11:26 am
Mindy: I’d love to see that picture.
Dad