Oldest living relatives, memories, etc.

[Darth Avlectus]

Ok. Well I decided having just gone and visited my great grandmother for her 100th birthday to start a thread about long lived relatives here for lucasforumers.

 

Who are your oldest living relatives? Who has the age record (if recently deceased) of your family? What are their trinkets of wisdom? Their philosophies? Maybe you wish to include some fond memories? What did they do to live so long? What changes events had/have they seen in their lives?

Things like that and certainly any criteria relevant to this topic. I suppose adopted family or friends you consider to be family count as well.

 

 

I'll start:

My great grandmother, 100, and well. Memory a little rusty but still quite coherent. Determined to beat out all her siblings, and is the last surviving one of them. The next land mark is 102, her sister died at 102, and that was from complications from a hip injury suffered 10 years before--otherwise she was fine. I daresay she is doing better than her sister. I think she will beat her sister.

 

My fondest memory was when I was 4 or 5 and our family stayed at a beach house. The wind would pick up from time to time. I was in the dining room with my great grandy it was mid day. I was probably doing what youngin's do while she was clearing the table off while the house was open. The wind suddenly picked up and blew the door shut to the living room with a loud slam. She jumped. She turned and looked at me, full well knowing I didn't do it but gave me that straight faced sarcasm she does even to this day and quickly said "HEY! That scared me!" Then chuckled.

 

My great grandmother must have seen a lot of stuff in her time. Born in 1909. The roaring 20's, the great depression, both World Wars, the modernization of the automobile, the advents in communications and breakthroughs in medical science. Trends with youth from the 50's on up to today. The arrival of the internet and its progress. Computers. Just so many things.

 

Her trinket? You can only take it one day at a time; think ahead indeed, but don't think too hard, just simply do it, and live.

 

Anyway, what do you have to share?

[Sabretooth]

I had a great-uncle back at the family village who lived upto 99, I think that's the top our family has gone (I could be wrong). I've never actually seen him (I only visited the village once when I was really, really young), but he died just about a month ago. Never got to make a century.

 

It's enchanting to think of these really old people and how they've lived normal lives through what we only see in history books. The great-uncle I mentioned would have seen the World Wars, the Independence Struggle, the Partition, 4 Wars including the Kargil War, the tensions in the Cold War, practically the single most progressive century in human history, all the way upto the now.

[Rogue15]

all my oldest relatives suck. all the cool ones died.

[Chevron 7 locke]

My great grandma lived to be 103 before she passed away and she was in great physical shape for someone her age. She did have problems with her memory though...but that was the only serious problem she had. I didn't get to see her that often, but she was fun to be around.

[Tommycat]

Well, My oldest living relatives are my mom, my step mom and then it's just my sister and I. It feels weird to be the oldest living male in the family. It feels even weirder to be the one people look to for answers. It's tradition in my family for the oldest male to represent the family. My opinion on matters is as respected as my mother's... Family members look to me for answers. I don't know everything... I've had to take much more neutral stances on things because if I say it, somehow it becomes the whole family's stance... It's a lot of pressure for me(now more than ever I am happy for anonymous internet forums)... At my age, I just don't feel like I'm the wisest...