I'm about to lose my last grandparent..

I'm sorry to hear that buddy

Sorry to hear. Some realities of getting older are unwelcome.

This year will mark 12 years since we lost one of my grandpa's and 5 since we lost one of my grandma's.

Sorry for your loss. I lost both of my paternal grandparents in the span of a year in 2020-2021, difficult times because how isolated people were from their family members. I hope you got to visit your grandfather after the pandemic started to weaken.

That's what I very happy about, my son knew and had a great relationship with all 4 of my grandparents, his great grandparents. When we talk about them they're not just a picture or a visual, he knew them.

Death of a loved one is always hard for the living. Having family around is a comfort.

I send my sympathies.




Times like this I realize how jealous I am of people with extended family.

Im sorry man. Lost my last grandparent last year (my grandma)

How is the relationship between your son and your grandparents? Is the grandparent-grandchild relationship the same as great-grandparent-great-grandchild?

Just an update that I just got back from his funeral today. He ended up passing on the 17th, the day after my dad had got back from visiting him in the hospital. I had driven down to my dad's sister's and they had his service at her church down there. Everyone still kinda reeling a bit since he was relatively healthy a little bit over a week before he passed. There was about 30-40 people there at the service, but it would have easily been over 100 if it wasn't on such short notice, he had that much of an impact on everyone's lives around him.

Learned a lot about my family history from my dad that I didn't know. Apparently we are related through my grandmother's side of the family from John Quiller Rowett, a businessman who made his fortune as a wine and spirits merchant, who also, back in 1921-22, financed the final Trans-Antarctic expedition of explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton and his ship Endurance, which was recently discovered back in March after it had crashed and sunk while surveying Elephant Island. Rowett ended up committing suicide at 48 years old after several failed business investments. The Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health in Aberdeen, Scotland is named after him and he was a co-founder, providing the financing for the building site and investing 10,000 pounds into the construction of the initial building.