Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Another loss - Grandmother Yi

It's almost too hard to believe but just two weeks since my grandmother on my dad's side passed away, we lost my maternal grandmother last night.

I didn't meet this grandmother until I was a teenager. The life she lived in South Korea was a mystery pieced together by the stories my mom told and the photos I closely inspected. She lived through the Japanese Occupation, the Korean War, raised four girls and two boys on not-a-lot, then moved to a strange country with a language she didn't speak. (There is an aunt missing in each picture. I guess she was the photographer?)

While thinking about her life, my other grandmother's and really all our grandparents... it sinks in that we are coming to the end of a great generation. They were the ones that rolled up their sleeves, buckled down, and got the job done. The end of an era.

6 comments:

  1. I'm so sorry for your losses, Jenny. Lady M

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  2. Sorry to hear this news -- hang in there...

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  3. ....so sorry to read about this...

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  4. I'm sorry to hear about your grandmas Jenny. May they rest in peace and forever be angels in heaven. - Nia K.

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  5. I'm very sorry about your further loss.

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