"Great-Babcia (My Great-Grandmother)"

It was 50 years ago today that my Great-Grandmother (Elizabeth Leisner) died.  I was 14 at the time and I didn't realize how hard it hit my Grandmother, "Babcia,"* to lose her mother.  I do recall that my MOM told us that we couldn't listen to music or watch TV for a few days because of "Great-Babcia's" death, and, selfish teen that I was, that really bugged me.  When WOODSTOCK started the next day, it wasn't until day TWO of that event (the 16th) that I even heard about it on the news....that's how "sequestered" we were.

I remembered how GRIEFSTRICKEN my Grandmother was, and how it was hard for me to understand that.  I did understand a LITTLE better when my uncle (who I was close to) died two years later, but I didn't FULLY understand a daughter's bond to her mom till about ten years later when, as a married man, Beth and I had a DAUGHTER.  My poor Grandmother was crushed with grief.

I don't recall going to my Great-Grandmother's funeral, and I don't have any good PHOTOS of her, but in honor of her I'm posting this pic of her blue "Snowballs" which she had in the yard.  She loved them!!  THAT much I remember about her.


* "Babcia" is Polish for "Grandmother."