Gary Reeder
In 1965 my Grand mother died of a heart attack
Tuesday, February 27, 2024, 12:00

We lived about 200 yards from her. I went up to see if I could help her out on whatever she was working on. She was sitting in her rocker, dead. I called her children They were all grown and in their late 30s) and told them she had died. One of them (there were 5 girls and 5 boys in her family) called whoever needed to be called to have her taken to the funeral home. That evening all the family started coming in. I wasn't there as I wasn't an immediate part of the family. The next afternoon I went up to see if I could help in any way. Everything in the house had been stripped. She had one of the original pedal-powered Singers and it was gone along with all the original furnishings. Just about everything in the house was original and collectible and her children had stripped it all from the house before she was 24 hours dead. The Singer topic reminded me of that.