This was during the depression. My Grandpa was out of work and they were very poor.
They had 3 small children (the youngest being my mother).
Three years later Grandma's brother, his wife and 2 daughters also moved in and stayed for 7 years...
all in a small 2 bedroom house. (The kids slept in the enclosed back porch.)
I never heard this story, but as hard as it must have been to give up the money she found,
I don't think she was even tempted to keep it! I knew my Grandma well.
How sweet of Lula and Vada to call the newspaper and give my Grandma credit.
The picture above was taken the very same year Grandma found the purse.
She's standing behind my mother.
9 comments:
What a story! Makes a person's day just reading it and much sweeter that it was your grandmother!
I don't know how you keep coming up with this stuff!?
What a wonderful story. Those kind of things should be in the newspaper more often.
Good for your grandma. And I'll bet you're right. No way she was even tempted.
=)
Yes, that's the kind of news that should be in newspapers! I was just imagining myself in your grandmother's shoes. I think I'm incapable of stealing, because I would never be able to forget that "this is someone else's money", and I couldn't enjoy spending it or what I got from it. Whenever someone has returned something I lost, I feel so, so grateful and look forward to doing the same for someone else someday.
darlene
I second Richard...where do you find these things? It is wonderful!!
I thought the picture of your mom was you!
Seriously? I looked nothing like my Mom and I was never anywhere close to being a blonde.
What a sweet story! I wonder how you find these stories as well!?
Heidi
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