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Independence Day will be a very special day for my family...for more reasons than a holiday, parade, and fireworks. July 4th will also be my grandmother Lizzie's 90th birthday.

I've created a special webpage in honor of Granny and her special birthday...to let my grandmother and everyone know how much I love her; and how thankful to God I am for her.

I'm honored to invite each of you to visit Granny's birthday webpage.
http://community-2.webtv.net/PerryXXL/H ... DAYGRANNY/

May God Bless,
Perry

Perry, That has to be the sweetest things anyone could do for someone, Im sure she loves you SOOOOOOO much, your a pure sweet heart!

Perry, that is so sweet of you! Your grandmother is so lucky to have such a caring grandson. If I don't post before July4th, wish Granny Lizzie a happy bday from me!

I cant stop crying!!!!!

Perry what a sweet thing for you to do for your Granny.

Tell your Granny she does not look 90!! Tell her Happy Birthday from all your friends at Storm2k!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GRANNY!!!!

Perry,
You are a wonderful grandson. Your granny must be so proud of you. I miss my granny so much.

Perry, my sentiments are like Lindaloo's - you tell Granny that
she looks younger than her age! Give her a big 'ole hug from all
of us here at Storm2K! Grandmothers are blessed by God to
take care of the "young'uns"!

Happy Birthday Lizzie!

1913....wow.... I'd Love to hear a story or two about rural GA in the 20's, 30's, 40's. When did you get your first radio?

Perry, I just wanted to add how lucky I think you are! One of my grandmothers died in her 50's when I was 3 years old. I don't remember anything about her. My other grandmother passed 4 years ago and I think of all the times as a young adult when I didn't visit her because I always had "something better" to do. If I could go back and change any of it, I would in a heartbeat.

Richard, I've heard all the stories from that era....hard times followed by the great depression followed by world war II...tough times that created tough men and women. She wasn't totally devastated by Oklahoma City and September 11th...she'd seen it before (lost friends at Pearl Harbor). She knew what Americans had to do, just as her generation did six decades ago.

How tough is this sweet little 5'0"-110 lb southern lady? She once broke her nose at recess and finished her schoolwork before WALKING home with her sisters...over a mile!

Granny isn't afraid of much either....as the oldest daughter in her family, she was used to going for help late at night (when someone was sick, her mom having a baby, etc)...to her aunts and uncles house through the woods...passed a graveyard (and there were no streetlights or flashlights in the 1920's).

My Granny says her family bought their first radio when my dad was 5 or 6 years old (1938 or 39); and their first black and white television in the late 1940's. She still remembers the first airplane she ever saw fly overhead....the first plane she ever saw land here in Douglas County, and was just as thrilled by it as I am by the internet.

Granny remembers going to church, to town, and to visit relatives on horseback and in a horse and wagon; remembers her family's first car...a 1923 Ford purchased in 1927 for the whopping price of $50 bucks

Granny did get a thrill today....the mayor of Douglasville Mickey Thompson sent her a birthday card. She's been on the phone telling her friends and relatives ever since it arrived

Thanks so much for all the kind words everyone.

God Bless You
Perry

FreakyWxChick wrote:Perry, I just wanted to add how lucky I think you are! One of my grandmothers died in her 50's when I was 3 years old. I don't remember anything about her. My other grandmother passed 4 years ago and I think of all the times as a young adult when I didn't visit her because I always had "something better" to do. If I could go back and change any of it, I would in a heartbeat.

I was as unfortunate with grandfathers as you with grandmothers....

My grandfather Nolen (mom's father) was a great guy...a kindhearted Tennessee truck driver that unfortunately passed away when I was only three Granny and her husband divorced when dad was just a toddler (during the great depression), and I only met him once in my life....when I was a baby He passed away in Missouri in 1987...

I inherited good traits from both my granddads. My outgoing personality and kind heart are from Grandpa Nolen....and my intelligence and writing ability I credit to grandpa Williams (he was a licensed doctor and wrote several books during the 1950's & 1960's).

May God Bless,
Perry

That's neat Perry. ......She listened to WWII. I'll bet on WSB.

Sure did listen to WWII reports on WSB RP....and get this...

Granny's family didn't have a telephone until the early 1950's....when one was installed when my dad was in the army. His grandparents wanted to hear his voice while he was in boot camp at Fort Jackson, SC....so they finally got a phone

Heck, I'm old enough to remember when my other grandmother (mom's folks) had her old handle cranked well replaced with an electric well pump....and I remember going to an "outdoor outhouse" as a child when we visited her in Tennessee.

The first computer I ever saw? 1978 when working at Walton High School in East Cobb....also where I saw my first VCR. Didn't own a VCR until the day before hurricane Andrew hit Florida (I rushed out and bought one at Wal-Mart on a Sunday morning, realizing it would be the first major landfall in SoFla since I was 3).

When did I first USE a PC to play games and surf for weather info? When visiting Becky & Dave (in Mississippi) in March of 1995....she'd had a computer in college, but when I visited her apartment, I never touched it...was always far more interested in watching her big-screen tv and talking with her lovely sorority sister/ roommate Terri

PW

That is so sweet. My eyes are watering too. Wish your wonderful grandmother a great birthday!

Granny has a special guy in her life...you! There is no doubt she has come this far on her journey because of you and others around her who love and care for her.

There's a wonderful perspective on life that comes from the many years of experience. You are right...many of those who had been through other wars and economic downturns look at our point in time now as being troublesome, but not often as sweeping as the impact of similar events in their time.

Celebrate with her and for her.

And the wonderful thing she can still do for you is teach. How to live life. How to survive adversity.

And how to love unconditionally.

Great website, Perry... and I hope she has a VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Your Grammy looks like she is a very sweet woman.

Thanks so much to each of you for the kind comments...I read them to my grandmother and it brightened her Sunday.

She is a precious lady...along with my late mother, Granny is the lady responsible for me being a gentleman.

Thanks and May God Bless,
Perry

I'm glad you shared the comments with her, Perry... I'm sure she enjoyed them very much!