My 99 year-old grandmother passed away yesterday. I am away from home now and will be attending services today thru Friday, and so posting will be limited. I will endeavor to check in often on comments and post at least some stories between now and then, but it might be sporadic.
She was born in a small village in Greece in 1910, and was arranged to be married at the age of 15 to my grandfather, whom she had never met prior to his courtship. He was 25 at the time and had been in the U.S. on his own since he was 13, also having come from a village in Greece. After the wedding ceremony, they returned together to Gary, Indiana where he had been working in the steel mills. He died of a heart attack in the mill at the age of 63 in 1960. Sadly, I never met him. She was a widow for the next 50 years.
She is survived by 3 children, 6 grandchildren and 7 great-grandchildren, so far.