My name is (........) i used to be a nice and kind kind girl...I had a great time very summer , i used to spend it on my grand's pa and grand's ma village , but its been year .
My maternal grandmother was so good to me.
Velva Ledbetter (Maiden Trammell) was born in 1919 and died in 1984. I was 19 when she died, so all the memories that I have of her are truly childhood memories.
Grandma was from Kentucky originally, but she and my grandpa moved to Oregon when my mother was just 7 years old. My mother is the second youngest of seven kids. Both grandma and grandpa wanted to keep my uncles from having to work in the Kentucky coal mines.
Grandma was a very generous person. She gave freely of her time and of her meager income that she lived on. See, my grandpa died before I was born of black lung disease. Thus, the importance of moving away from those coal mines. It was a survivors pension, from the coal mines, that grandma lived on.
I used to spent the night at grandma's house every chance that I had.
When I was quite young, she would teasingly scare my younger brother and I when she would take out her false teeth and put them in a glass of water for the night.
Then she would grin at us...and we would run out of the room, play-screaming!
Then we'd creep back into her room and dare her to smile at us again...without those teeth.
Kind of strange, I know. She would get a "kick" out of our reaction. I can still remember how she would laugh and laugh about that.