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Just found out my last surviving grandfather passed away earlier this year, this way.
Was talking to a coworker about family issues, and how I haven't seen or spoken to my father in about 15 years..wouldn't even know if he was still alive, etc (actually haven't seen anyone on my father's side of family in over a decade either). On a whim, decided to Google him, and found out instead Grandpa passed away in January. Yeah...bummer way to find out, but then for someone that hasn't been a part of my life for so many years.....
That's what YOU think. My daughter is 23 and she has had at least 5 friends from school die, so far.
Isn't that tragic? There's a Facebook page for our high school In Memory Of.... and it's sadly amazing how many young people have died. Latest one was a massive fast moving house fire, lost the mom (the classmate) and the daughter.
I always check up on old classmates. The latest though was quite a surprise. He was an old classmate I had met when we were in the 6th grade. We played high school football together, and had developed a great deal of respect for each other. He died of cancer earlier this year. This guy was always very fiery, always engaged in confrontation, and I felt that he might someday kill somebody. Even at 11 years of age, he had a look in his eye as if he wanted to always fight and hurt someone. I always hoped the best for him, because he was a natural athlete and a natural leader. Had he been able to go to college, he could've been anything in life.
After high school graduation, he got involved in selling (and likely using) drugs. His first arrest would come five years later. He was convicted of aggravated battery. He would go on to be convicted four more times for battery, with a couple of those domestic. The last of these convictions came only seven years before he died. He was convicted of six felonies (battery, drugs) in total, and did a fair amount of time in prison. He spent time in a prison that had problems with prison rape, so there was a chance he may have met his match there. His front teeth had been knocked out too, so he didn't have it easy.
Funny how life unfolds because of the choices we make.
I found the same thing on my ex-husband just two weeks ago, but only a death notice (and a link to his grave on findagrave.com). There was apparently no obituary. He died in 2010, and I just found out -- and he was only 58.
It's comforting in a way to know that I'm not the only one who found out about an ex-husband's death on the internet. It happened to me earlier this year. I was his third wife. We'd been divorced for 25 years, and he never remarried. He was 85, he lived alone with his dog, and he died in his sleep on Christmas Eve. His second wife, daughters and grandchildren were mentioned in the obituary, but I was not. That hurt.
My father has been ?estranged from his siblings ever since his mother died when I was a child. We used to drive cross-country to spend the holidays with his extended family over the Xmas/New Year's holidays until his mother passed.
I don't know why he doesn't keep in touch with his siblings/half-siblings. There wasn't a big fight or conflict or actual falling out. Just a fade away....
Late in life, my father has gone through a lot of loss and personal health problems. He has become nostalgic and tells a lot of stories from his youth, and shows a lot of fondness for his older brothers (who were 8-12 years older). I gently encouraged him to look online for them, as he didn't know their addresses anymore. Personally, I would LOVE to have them in my life again.
Unfortunately, his two brothers had already passed away.... one just a few weeks before.
So so sad.... so so sad...
And then my father refused to "let me" contact their families. He also has multiple sisters/half-sisters that appear to still be living, and he doesn't want to contact them either.
Sigh....
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