Michele Eliana
Aloha again, Gramms, I feel blessed to have travelled extensively with you throughout Europe, the United Kingdom, and to Russia. Everywhere we went you easily made friends, some who have since become like family. You entertained many people during our travels with your intelligence, wit, and wicked sense of humor! Despite leaving school after the 10th grade to get married to Grandpa Clifford and start a family, you never gave up your voracious appetite and love of reading. I always saw you with a book or newspaper in your hands. Your savvy, hard-to beat Scrabble finesse often left many a family member who challenged you in the dust! Your love of crossword puzzles, including the famous Sunday New York Times crossword, just added to your innate, natural intelligence and smarts throughout your lifetime. Even at 98-years-old, you enjoyed a good read or crossword puzzle--between naps, wink, wink--and I loved bringing you new reading materials and puzzles on our frequent visits with you, especially over the past two years.
Of course, one of my favorite things about you, Gramms, was your wickedly funny, sometimes dirty, sense of humor!! You could crack a joke as easily as you could crack a smile…or give someone stink eye!! I, too, am ALWAYS cracking jokes and when I tell friends and colleagues about your sense of humor, they often say they now understand where I get my own—and that’s from YOU, and I accept that PROUDLY!!
Keep on cracking those jokes, Gramms!! Leave 'em all laughing up there…
Love you lots! - Shelly