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The Biography of My Grandfather and My Grandmother
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Creator: Unknown. 1966.
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My Grandfather's Life
With 200 thought-provoking and lighthearted writing prompts and exercises organized into chapters based on his life, My Grandfather's Life guides your grandfather to begin his life's memoir and create a fully realized record of his adventures, stories, and wisdom for you and your family to cherish for future generations.
Record your grandfather's life story in this beautiful keepsake journal with 200 guided exercises and prompts that take him back through each stage of his life and its accompanying adventures. Whether called Papa, Grampie, Grandpa, or something else, grandfathers are a family's most-prized treasure and whose patriarchal wisdom, love, and support are needed and appreciated by every member. Grandfathers have lived full lives that show that, even though times may change, most of life's truths are timeless. With a compassionate ear always at the ready, their experiences have also begåvad them with profound insight to share. In
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How I created an heirloom book of my grandfather’s life story
These two photos were taken in New York City, the gods at the Empire State Building.
To put my grandfather’s health into perspective, he was living alone in an apartment in a senior’s complex in east Vancouver from about 1990 to 2011. At the age of 97 it was clear he wasn’t fit to live on his own and was even hospitalized. Members of my family flew from across the continent thinking those were his last days, but he recovered and was transferred to an assisted living home until he moved to the facility where he finally passed away in 2014. While packing up his belongings, my aunt found a file of documents including my grandfather’s time in the army and air force, his flight training, logs, and even hand-typed and written letters to and from government officials who sent him abroad to San Francisco to study mechanics and piloting.
In my opinion, these were some of the most interesting part