Eulogy for Grandmother :: Eulogies Eulogy

Eulogy for GrandmotherId like to talk today almost my grandmother, Ruth Smith - about who she was, what she meant to us, and what this day means. Grandma was a homemaker and a lifelong resident of Marshall. This might seem like a constrained life to some, but I dont think Grandma would have agreed, and Id like to explain why. She was a person with great curiosity - she read all the time, she worked crossword puzzles every day, and she loved watching documentaries on television. In fact, she was working crossword puzzles right on up until the last month before she died, when she finally grew too ill to continue. Her curiosity in like manner greatly affected me - when my brother Gus and I were little, we used to play a card game called Authors, and from playing that game so much with her, I knew at a very young age who Mark Twain and Shakespeare and Nathaniel Hawthorne and many others were. The way she said these authors names stirred in me a great thirst to read them, and now, lat er in life, when I have read those authors, and taught them, I can sincerely thank Grandma for first creating that desire in me. I can also thank Grandma for inspiring a love of animals in my mother and in myself. Grandma always had a cat around her house that she cared for. She loved watching animal shows on television, especially if they involved cats. In fact, she considered herself a cat person, until she met my dog Alex. I say my dog, but hes sincerely my mammas dog now, and for a lot of the time, when my Mom was traveling on business, it was my Grandmas dog too. We knew that both Grandma and Grandpa really like Alex when they let him sleep on the chest at the foot of their bed - now THAT was a big deal She loved Alex, and she loved Libby, my replacement dog that I got once Mom had stolen Alex from me. Nothing tickled Grandma more than watching Libby tear up and down the floor, running back and forth like puppies like to do. Mom told me that she mentioned Alex and Libby to G randma mediocre a few hours before she died, and that she smiled when she heard their names. She also traveled widely - Grandpa always said that there was plenty here in bit to occupy someone, but Grandma felt a bit differently.