I feel the same way. I did meet Ava when I was in high school. She was sick with asthma, and I would sit with her and tell Gordon came home and so she wouldn’t be alone. I would sit there and do my homework. She was very weak at that point, but she loved music, played the violin and the piano, and sang in the choir. It’s so funny to think of Gordon, then marrying my mother Ruth.but most of all I would like to get to know my dad Ross, Edwin Eck he died when I was four years old, so I don’t have very many memories of him, but I do have a few that I recall, and will share with all of you when I see you. Ross was a businessman/salesman in Chicago and when grandpa Eck August Eck was getting older they asked Ross to come back to the farm and work. I don’t think he liked it very much.. he had one older sister, Miriam, Lester, a brother and twin sisters, Mabel and Myrtle. Grandma Eck was indeed a special person and we all had a big connection to her. I think Cherrill got her cooking ability from grandma Eck because she would let us watch her bake and I can’t remember for sure, but I think Cherrill helped. Even though we were for women living alone, it was a lovely childhood, and I went to the same school district for 12 years.
Like my sibs, I would have liked to have met Ross and Ava. I would also like to have met(I think I did but was a baby when she died) Great Grandma Eck. Mom had such a connection to her- I think she had a big heart. I would have liked to have met my Great Grandmother who came to America from Sweden at age 17 with a toddler. I would have loved to hear her stories. I would have liked to know if there were Swedish traditions that were important to her.
I also would have liked to have met Ross and Ava. Ava died when I was 1 or 2.
I also would like to have met Enoch Hirst (my great grandfather). And also meet Hirst family from England, even though I now prefer Ireland.
I feel the same way. I did meet Ava when I was in high school. She was sick with asthma, and I would sit with her and tell Gordon came home and so she wouldn’t be alone. I would sit there and do my homework. She was very weak at that point, but she loved music, played the violin and the piano, and sang in the choir. It’s so funny to think of Gordon, then marrying my mother Ruth.but most of all I would like to get to know my dad Ross, Edwin Eck he died when I was four years old, so I don’t have very many memories of him, but I do have a few that I recall, and will share with all of you when I see you. Ross was a businessman/salesman in Chicago and when grandpa Eck August Eck was getting older they asked Ross to come back to the farm and work. I don’t think he liked it very much.. he had one older sister, Miriam, Lester, a brother and twin sisters, Mabel and Myrtle. Grandma Eck was indeed a special person and we all had a big connection to her. I think Cherrill got her cooking ability from grandma Eck because she would let us watch her bake and I can’t remember for sure, but I think Cherrill helped. Even though we were for women living alone, it was a lovely childhood, and I went to the same school district for 12 years.
Like my sibs, I would have liked to have met Ross and Ava. I would also like to have met(I think I did but was a baby when she died) Great Grandma Eck. Mom had such a connection to her- I think she had a big heart. I would have liked to have met my Great Grandmother who came to America from Sweden at age 17 with a toddler. I would have loved to hear her stories. I would have liked to know if there were Swedish traditions that were important to her.