Were any of you fortunate enough to get to meet/see your great grandparents as you are now an adult? As kids?

Question

As the age for first time mothers in the country is decreasing, the chances of one actually being able to meet and remember their great grandparents is better than ever! I want to know if there are any old schoolers out there like me that were fortunate enough to meet and see, plus remember my great grandma before she died back in 1986. I was young, but at 6 I still remember her and what she was like.

Answer 1

Not only fortunate enough, but one is still living.



I got to meet ALL of them, and apparently I was held by my great-great grandmother before she passed away when I was a baby.



I remember two of my great grandmothers on my father's side as a child. they passed away before I was 7, but I still remember them. On my my mother's side, until just 4 years ago, I had 3 of my great grandparents...a great grandfather and two great grandmothers, who consisted of my great grandmother on my mother's mother's side, and my mother's father's parents. My mother's father's parents were married for 85 years before my great grandfather passed away. the remaining great grandparent I have his his wife. She is now 98.



Now my great grandmother is still alive and has been able to meet all her great great grandchildren. 5 generations. It's so special.

Answer 2

I'm 21, and two of my great-grandparents are still alive (it was 3 six months ago, but my great-grandmother died after many years of dealing with Alzheimer's)



My father's grandparents were all dead by the time I was born, but my mother's four grandparents were all alive, the first dying when I was about 9 or so.



Right now, my father's mother is a great-grandmother, and if my great-grandparents (in their mid 80's) can hold out another few years, I have every intention of making the trip to see their first great-great-grandchild after they are born.

Answer 3

Not even close. It's surprising to me that a good number of people seem to know their great-grandparents, because that isn't how it is in my family at all.



My mom never knew any of her grandparents. My dad new at least one but she died a long time ago (I think 1969). So my last great-grandparent died over 20 years before I was born. My grandparents were older when they had my parents, and several of my great-grandparents died young, so that's why.

Answer 4

I met my great-grandmother when I was five or six. I feel bad about the memory.



She was off the boat Czechoslovakian and didn't speak English. The poor woman was bed ridden, speaking whatever language she was speaking and wanted nothing more than me to come closer so she could get a better look at me. I was terrified and never went near her. She died before I ever saw her again. I know I was a kid but, I still feel a little bad about it.



My kid met both of her paternal grandparents while they were in their nineties. We played checkers with grandpa and rode around with grandma in her wheelchair.

Answer 5

I met my grandfathers mother on my mothers side in 1983 when I was 7 years old. That was the only time we were on vacation we lived bout 3,500 miles from them. I remember she was very quiet and kind I also remember when I was 9,roller skating with my friends and getting a call from the public phone that she had died. Not sure why my mom didn't wait till I got home. I did feel sad but, I didn't really have a bond.

Answer 6

Yes I have met almost all of them, had 4 of them up until last year and now I only have two. I have a 98 year old Great Grandma and a 95 year old great grandma. Both of which still live on their own and drive (god help us all)... and my children have got the awesome opportunity to meet their Great Great Grandmothers!

Answer 7

Yes, I got to meet one. She passed in the early 80's when I was 12 years old. She lived with my grandmother. She mostly stayed in her room, sitting in an easy chair and watching all the TV westerns that were popular back then. It was always either reruns of Bonanza or Wild Wild West or a movie. But when she came out of her room to eat with us she was so much fun. She would be quiet and then suddenly burst out with something funny. Not in an old people are funny sort of way, she actually had a wonderful sense of humor.



On my dad's side I didn't have a chance. They were older when they had my dad, my grandpa was 46 years old when he was born. I was lucky to have even met him, I was 5 when he died.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

All of my great-grandparents died long before I was born...pretty sure my parents never met their grandparents. :-(



My grandmothers are still alive and LJ has 'met' them. She's too young at this point to be able to remember them, though. Hopefully, they are around long enough to see her grow up at least a little! (One is in her 90's and the other is in her late 80's.)

Answer 10

I grew up with my great grandmother! Granny used to tell me stories about her childhood. (Things like her brother accidentally chopping off her finger tip with an ax. He dad threw it is the wood stove!) I vaguely remember great grandpa, he died when I was a little girl. (Both on my mom's side) We have pictures of five generations on my mom's side. Now mom is at the top! My great nephew is 17 so we will probably have 5 generations pictures again within the next several years!

Answer 11

I have many memories of my maternal great-grandmother. She died when I was 16 years old (1995). I believe she was somewhere around 80 years old. The others died before I was born or when I was an infant or toddler.

Answer 12

No, my great-grandparents had passed long before I was considered. Both of my grandfathers had actually passed away before I was born.



My sons, though, were able to meet their great-grandmothers before they passed on.

Answer 13

I still have 2 great-grandparents alive. They're only in their 80s and still going strong.



We actually have 5 generations alive right now- my great-grandparents are my niece's great-great-grandparents.



*eta One great-grandma just died 4 years ago, another set of great grandparents passed when I was 12, another set passed when I was 13 and 18. I've known all but 2 sets of my great-grandparents, who did pass before I was born. I'm 21 now.

Answer 14

my kids have a great-grand-mother on my husband's side. She's their Nana and they see her fairly often. She's awesome and we love her so much and it's gonna be a sad sad day when she leaves us



They also have a great-grandfather on my side, my oldest two have met him once and maybe all four kids might get to see him this summer, but he's old and might die before then... either way i don't really care, he's not really a part of our world



i never knew my great grandoarents... neither did my husband

Answer 15

I met my great grandfather and remember him. He was 93 when he died.



My kids know both great grandmothers and grandmothers. Neither met their great grandfathers and only my oldest ever met her grandfathers. She barely remembers my dad, she was 3 when he died and she is 13 now.

Answer 16

I went on a trip with my grandmother and met my great-grandmother when I was 18.



Neat lady....she was still living in the house my grandmother grew up in, and actually baked for us in a wood burning stove. :o) (She had two stoves in her kitchen....one gas and the other wood.)



I think she was 97 when she died.



My kids met both of their great grandmothers when they were young.