Sun, 23 May 2004
In Memoriam: Peg Smith 1910-2004
My grandmother passed away quietly in her sleep on May 12, 2004. Grandma was a fiercely independent woman. She was the driver of the family, my granddad never did learn to drive. She drove to Florida every year by herself until she was 80. I will be forever grateful to her for teaching me to read before I went to kindergarten. I was the first of the latchkey generation and grandma essentially raised me from the time I was very young. This meant that in addition to learning to read at a very young age, I learned to eat my vegetables and clean my plate depression-era style. She had seen the entire 48 states many times over by the time she was retired. All that from someone with an 8th grade education. But we wouldn't let education stand in our way, would we?
Godspeed Grandma.
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