Passing away
Mildred Nierhoff passed away today. Mimi was my grandfather’s brother’s wife. She had no blood relatives left - the only family she had left were relatives by marriage. She had spent the last eleven years in a nursing home suffering from alzheimer’s, and faded quickly during the past couple of days. My mother and my grandmother spent hours and hours there with her these past couple of days. May the angels lead her to paradise, and may she rest in peace.
Yesterday, while the family was talking, my grandmother mentioned how Millie’s husband had been wounded in Italy during World War II. That led my brother to ask questions about what my grandfather had done. I told him that grandpa had been in the 95th Infantry Division, and he had been wounded in Metz, France, and that there was a lot of information about that unit available on the internet.
It seems to me that we need to do a better job in keeping family stories alive, because all too quickly they become forgotten.
