This is my mother's side of my
family. The only Grandparents I knew came from this branch.
(Daddy's parents died before I was born). My grandmother, (Hazel
Naomi Coffey-Musgrave) was a very positive influence in my childhood.
She was also a very special person to me. We lived with her,
or near her until I was about 6 or 7 years old. She was a no-nonsense
person, but was always careing and loving. Grandma was very religious,
and LIVED her religion. She didn't preach it, but she did influence
me with it. |
Grandma and grandpa Coffey (my
great grandparents) were also special people. I don't remember grandma
Coffey very well, she died when I was fairly young. But, grandpa
Coffey I got to know well. The picture that Norman Rockwell did with
the "white haired, mustached" one, where he's looking through an old trunk
with two young children, remind me a lot of my grandpa Coffey. In
that picture, the old guy had twinkle in his eye, and the two kids seem
to be were having a ball. That was my grandpa Coffey! He was always
telling us stories, while he whittled, by the way. |