Gone Too Soon
52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Week 9: Gone Too Soon I’m sure every family has someone special that has left this life before we were ready. My family is no exception. I couldn’t even whittle this list down to a trivial number of people from my family. In a short span, my husband and I lost 4 members of our immediate family. My children lost 3 grandparents and 1 uncle between 2014 and 2016. The biggest loss for me from the “Gone Too Soon” category is my mother. Now I know when I say that she did live until she was 68 you might think that isn’t necessarily gone too soon, however, that still seems young by today’s standards. I know I wasn’t ready to live the rest of my life without her at the age of 42. Just 11 weeks after my mother passed, my husband’s mother, Patsy, unexpectedly passed away at the age of 64. Within 6 months of Patsy’s passing, my youngest brother in law, Daniel, was struck by an automobile where he suffered a severe traumatic brain injury. At the age of 2...