Reply #39: My Grandfather was a newspaperman for a county paper [View All]

[av8rdave]

I remember him taking me along to Village board meetings and occasionally interviews.

He had this old fashioned belied in getting all points of view on a story and sourcing it carefully. He would be mortified at what the "news" industry has become. My Grandma was the Village Tax Collector, and a great seamstress.

My other grandfather was a draftsman, a photographer, Ham radio operator and owner/operator of a photo developing business. Though he was bedridden for a lot of his adult life, he had an Incredible sense of humor, was curious about everything, and never met anyone he didn't like. My Grandmother worked full time to care for him through years of sickness and frequent hospitalizations (with NO health insurance). After he passed away, she was able to enjoy a very modest retirement for nearly two decades, thanks to careful planning and Social Security.

RIP. Though they've been gone a longtime, I miss them all terribly.