My grandmother's birthday would be, well, the 28th of August. We lost her in 2011.
How I do miss her.
MERRIMAC — Helen XXX died at her XXX residence on December 29, 2011 at the age of 91.
Helen was born in Pennsylvania in August of 1920. One of thirteen children, she moved with her family to New Jersey as a child and to Massachusetts with her late husband William in 1948. She worked as an Administrative Assistant to senior management of several high tech firms including Entwhistle, Technology Instrument Corp, and ITEC.
Helen divided her time between her homes in XXX Mass and XXX Island Maine, where she could regularly be seen running her 18' power boat between her island home and the mainland. She enjoyed reading and was particularly fond of the New Yorker magazine. Her favorite hobby however was building stonewalls at her Island home.
Helen will be missed by her friends and family; her two sons, William B. XXX and George F. XXX, her granddaughter Anne XXX and her husband George XXX, her grandsons, XXX and and his wife XXX, two great-grandsons XXX and XXX and Judith XXX, her sisters XXX, and her niece XXX.
Today would be my grandmother's 94th birthday. We were great friends. We spoke on the phone nearly daily for over 20 years and I grew up living in her house.
I love you, Nagga*.
Nagga, and my mother, L to R. In my Kitchen in Maine.
I miss you dearly, you feminist woman you, and embracing of my homosexuality. You live on here at The Rock and we're taking great care of your stone walls.
I still have your last calls saved on my voicemail. Rest in peace, my dear grandmother who did so much for me and for all of us.
*I called her "Nagga" because I couldn't say "Baba" as a young kind and it stuck.
You can't break glass ceilings with your heels, girls!" --Nagga circa 1969.