Sunday is Grandparents Day in the US.
This is my maternal great-grandmother, Emma.
Reimagined.
Emma was the youngest of six children and the first to immigrate to the United States from Sweden (Dalarna County.) She was a seamstress to titled ladies in Stockholm before her trans-Atlantic journey. When settled in Chicago, she met and married my great-grandfather, Peter, a widower. They had one child, my grandma Myrle. She had one child, my mother.
Emma was my discipline in the formative years, she was also unconditional love. She taught me to cook and bake and sew and made sure I always remembered I was a Swede.
Many years later, when she began showing signs of dementia, she never once raised her voice to me. And I was always remembered. She died when my son was three weeks old. Five generations for a very brief time.
The original photograph was taken in Sweden about 1900 and she was probably fifteen-ish.
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It may be Cinco de Mayo, but for me May fifth has always been my grandmothers’ birthdays. Also my youngest brother.
These are my great-grandparents, Emma and Peter. I’m placing the year at roughly 1907 due to her year of birth and how old they look. (He was a widower, and thusly, older.) Also their clothes. This was their wedding photo, btw.
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It may be Cinco de Mayo, but for me May fifth has always been my grandmothers’ birthdays. Also my youngest brother.
This is my grandma, Myrle. She was the only child of Emma and Peter. I’m placing the year at 1909 due to her year of birth.
Wasn’t she a doll?
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A cousin of my great-grandmother (c. 1890)
and yours truly as a 1920s flapper.
DANCE
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My maternal grandmother.
One of the most loved people in my life.
She died in late October, within the same week
as my son, Jason, but four years earlier.
They were also very close.
She was a flapper back in the day,
but so much more.
This was taken sometime in the 1920s, I’m guessing.
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