Jan 7, 2010

Who is the oldest person in your family you can remember knowing when you were a child? What do you remember about that person?

Wow this one is hard since I knew a lot of my mother and father's family. However I think that I will change the question a little since I think it means who was the oldest when you can first remember them but I will write about the one who was the oldest one I can remember at the time of their death.

Uncle Leo and Aunt Zelma were always pretty old even though I believe she was younger than Grandma Hansen who was her sister. But my Great Aunt Zelma lived one month shy of her 105th birthday. Great Uncle Leo was 94 when he passed away and Great Aunt Zelma was 90. Mom stated several times that she felt Aunt Zelma wanted to live longer than him and set her sites on 95 but made it to nearly 105.

They were never able to have children but adopted all of the nieces, nephews, great nieces and great nephews. I received $10.00 per month every month for the two years of my mission as did everyone else that served missions. She was also our measuring stick since she was barely four foot tall. We would measure our growth by her each time they came to visit and it was a special day when we were finally taller. Each of you also had a chance to meet her when we went to St George to see Grandma while she was there taking care of your Great Great Aunt Zelma. She was even shorter then since when had a severe case of ostioperosis. She was not very well the also so her cute personality also didn't show itself very well.She was always a very special person to me.