Sad family news
Mar. 21st, 2004 08:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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beeby just called to let me know her father, my grandfather, died this afternoon. He was a brilliant man who was recognised not only for his amazing contributions to electrical engineering; the most prominent of which was helping to develop the PAL colour system we use in the UK for television, but also for helping to raise his children and enjoy his grandchildren with his wife until she died some 10 years ago. I remember playing chess with him when I was young (and eventually winning too!), breaking his anniversary clock and anything else I could get my hands on, mowing his lawn and generally being a kid. I remember his pipe and the smell of his pipe tobacco, his mannerisms and mock surprise at our jokes, not getting our jokes at all and being told off by my mother for not humouring us. I remember his house, with the creaky floorboards and stairs.
He died, they think, from a heart attack as he was driving and turning a corner in his car. The car crashed into a 3 foot high wall; no one else was involved and they think it was quick. There will be a post mortem and probably a burial next to his wife.
That's the last of my grandparents now. He was the oldest at 92, and funnily enough the only smoker. My mother asked me if I wanted his wedding ring.
beeby just called to let me know her father, my grandfather, died this afternoon. He was a brilliant man who was recognised not only for his amazing contributions to electrical engineering; the most prominent of which was helping to develop the PAL colour system we use in the UK for television, but also for helping to raise his children and enjoy his grandchildren with his wife until she died some 10 years ago. I remember playing chess with him when I was young (and eventually winning too!), breaking his anniversary clock and anything else I could get my hands on, mowing his lawn and generally being a kid. I remember his pipe and the smell of his pipe tobacco, his mannerisms and mock surprise at our jokes, not getting our jokes at all and being told off by my mother for not humouring us. I remember his house, with the creaky floorboards and stairs.He died, they think, from a heart attack as he was driving and turning a corner in his car. The car crashed into a 3 foot high wall; no one else was involved and they think it was quick. There will be a post mortem and probably a burial next to his wife.
That's the last of my grandparents now. He was the oldest at 92, and funnily enough the only smoker. My mother asked me if I wanted his wedding ring.
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Date: 2004-03-21 12:15 pm (UTC)My grandad is not well and this pm i posted about it. He IS the only smoker though. He's stopped now, but it's too late to not have done damage to his arteries. They have to decide whether or not to operate on his heart. They're in South Africa.
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Date: 2004-03-21 12:40 pm (UTC)There really isn't anything else I can say, just that I'll be thinking of you and your family while you mourn him.
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Date: 2004-03-21 12:54 pm (UTC)Thinking of you.
E.
x
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Date: 2004-03-21 12:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-21 12:58 pm (UTC)I've got my dad's wedding ring, though it still needs to be repaired.
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Date: 2004-03-21 01:12 pm (UTC)i wish you a long life.
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Date: 2004-03-21 03:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-21 05:08 pm (UTC)And yet, it sounds like he had a pretty long and full life. I hope you all have some time to celebrate that, amid the mourning. Judging from your reminiscences, that should be the case.
*hugs*
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Date: 2004-03-21 10:39 pm (UTC)I still miss my Taid and he has been gone for nearly 20 years
*huge hugs*
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Date: 2004-03-22 12:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-22 04:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-22 04:38 am (UTC)*hug*
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Date: 2004-03-22 04:52 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-22 12:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-25 11:56 am (UTC)Your Grandfather is most assuredly happy he is remembered well by his family. The hurt from the loss will eventually fade, but the memories will burn bright as long as you are alive. Take the ring.
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Date: 2004-03-27 07:48 pm (UTC)