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Roselie Gross!
Grandma Rosalie died at the age of 97 Wednesday April 7th This is a Tribute to her! |
| by Brad Fralick | | posted on | 2010-04-11 17:06:35 | | views | 81 : last 2010-09-05 08:07:03 | | comments | 3 : last 2010-06-11 10:22:47 | | category | non_fiction | | rating | General | |
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Rosalie was a beautiful woman with a kind heart! She was born to a couple of immigrants; I think her dad was a Tailor. Unfortunately I do not know much more about her family. They were Jewish at a time when being Jewish was not popular. I do not know but I do not think her, or her brothers and sisters were ever caught up in the holocaust mess that affected many Jews during, before and after World War II. Her first husband Gustav Anderson was a Gentile. The story goes that her parents did not accept their marriage until my mother Nadine was born! This was the case because Gus was a Gentile. My grandmother Rosalie, I always knew her as Grandma Anderson loved her husband but Gus was probably a difficult man to be married to as he was an alcoholic, a smoker too which, I’m sure Grandma only put up with, being a Nurse because she married him for better or worse. Gus unfortunately died of a massive coronary infarct. Rosalie finally married another man who was a Jew, Stan Jacobs, and she loved him dearly. This you could tell by the way she doted over him constantly, even to the point that she may have embarrassed him once or twice.
I recall one time when we were all at a fancy restaurant in Santa Barbara celebrating her granddaughter’s graduation when Stan, who had been injured in WWII was trying to bring Rosalie a drink, and probably because of his injury, he spilled it all over Rosalie. She immediately jumped up and yelled at Stan, “Stan you never could hold your liquor!” Well Stan was somewhat embarrassed as were we all. You couldn’t help but laugh, I think I saw Stan even chuckle a bit. As there was truth to what she said. Because Stan was so unsteady, it was totally unavoidable for him to spill a glass of anything that he was trying to set down on the table in front of her. But Grandma was always very kind to all her grand kids. I know she took Cathleen on a cruise somewhere once. I’m sure that Cathy had a great time! Especially once she got used to Grandma trying to introduce her to every young single man on the ship.
Also, one familiar thing with Grandma was the scent of Mothballs on everything that she kept for safekeeping. I often wondered later, if these Mothballs were not the source of many ailments which, Grandma had in later years. These Mothballs perhaps almost preserved her until she was one hundred years old, and I am pretty sure that reaching one hundred was a goal of hers as I recall her saying at her 97th Birthday last year that she only had three years to go. That was just before she said, “See you all next year!” She knew, I think that none of us liked seeing her there in that Nursing home, and that I think she knew that once a year was enough for any of us. Well she held on as long as she could but I think maybe she knew that place was just not conducive to good family visitations.
People always say, “Well she’s in a better place now, and while it is not up to me to say wherever that is, I am certain it’s at least different than this place! And Grandma, I pray that you are in a place with your beloved Stan, where you can look down enjoying watching all of your Grand kids, present, and future Grand kids. We loved you Grandma!
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© Brad Fralick, 2010, All Rights Reserved.
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| What beautiful writing Brad. Through your writing you gave us a window into your Grandma's life and who she was. Thank you for such a treat and gift. Lovely work. |
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| We will greatly miss you Grandma!~LOVE Ya LOVE Brad |
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| Thank-you DEAR Evie!~LOVE Ya LOVE Brad |
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