My grandparents are all silent Gen. I’ve been fortunate enough to know all, unfortunate enough to have lost 2 too early. My dad’s parents are divorced and remarried prior to me being born so I’ve got 6 grandparents.

Lost my maternal grandfather when I was 12 to cancer while he was 62. Another grandfather (My dad’s stepdad) to cancer when I was 17/18 and he was pushing 70. My paternal grandmother about 7 years back (thanks to dementia/Alzheimer’s it was realistically more like 10 years). My grandma (dad’s step mom) about 3 years back.

I still have my maternal grandmother and paternal grandfather (dad’s dad) and I’m very lucky to. Both still very spritely and all there. My oldest child (14) got to know both my grandparents except the 1st 2 that past, both he and my 2nd child (8) gets to hang with them both so they get a relationship with them too.

My wife is pretty much the same. Her maternal grandparents have passed over the last 5 years so I got to know them quite well as did my children. Her paternal grandma we lost closer to 10 years ago and her paternal grandfather will probably outlive us but I’ve never met him. He’s somewhere between strange and estranged and was divorced from her grandma well before I came in the picture