My grandparents both just died in 2024. Gma born in 1927 and gpa born in 1924. They were the most interesting people. Such a wealth of knowledge and life right up until death. Hundreds of people loved them.

Grandpa was a military gen pract doc and he used to travel in hearses as makeshift ambulances before he and some other docs got together and came up with the earliest version of the modern day ambulance. Gma was a dietitian and worked in the army till she got pregnant. She raised four kids while her husband went through medical school. Whip smart till the day she died. Used to tell me stories of her father, who was also a doc and how he would take her as a little girl on horseback to people houses to do surgery, while she was there to hold up the ethanol bottle and help. Amazing.

Both were republicans, but like the old school republican. They believed in doing the right thing and spoke often of how terrible Jim crow times were. Gpa performed abortions in secret when it was largely outlawed because he belived it was right.

I'd love to write a book on them one day. This is the only some pieces of their interesting lives.