“Happy Birthday Grandma Lulu”
“Remembering Great Grandma Aldrich – Stanley”
“Grandma Louise Aldrich-Stanley born 1881”
How could we forget, “GRANDMA Lulu” – the grand-children always have a way to shorten their “GRANDMAS” name, to something short, simple and easy for them to say. So, with “Grandma Lulu” we also have, a “Grandma GoGo” and everybody knew exactly, who and which “Grandma” the Grand-children were referring to, as they were learning to talk and connect to the different adults.
This is “Grandma Lulu” and she is holding our brand new baby “AL” and we were, back then, living in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Have a quick guess “Grandma Lulu” would be “138” years old, today. She did like to travel by “Greyhound Bus” travelling to one son or daughter’s home to another, and when ever there was a “newborn” in the FAMILY , she would always want, to be there just to HELP!
So, this trip by “BUS” was a long one, coming from Saint Louis, Missouri area, to Florida, so- I just had to ask her, “WHY travel by BUS?” and HER answer left me really “thinking” – because her answer was, “I just LOVE to talk to lots of people and when you are travelling by BUS, you have more opportunity to meet more people and learn more information about things, that you never knew before!”
This, was very HARD for me to believe , as all of the years that I knew her, she was very “HARD of HEARING” and, whenever I would be talking to her, I had to talk so LOUD, that usually everyone, but “Lulu” heard and knew what I said. BUT, let me whisper something to someone, not wanting her to hear, you guessed right, she heard every word! This next all FAMILY get-to-gather was just weeks before “BABY AL” was to arrive!
This last PHOTO is just a couple of weeks later, “Grandma Lulu” with both “Grandsons” Lee Jr., and our new baby, “AL!”
“Happy Birthday “Great Grandma, Louise” with many Blessings from our Almighty Yahweh!” D.V.
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