My grandmother finally passed today.. I'm ok... really. Ok I'm a little numb but at the same time I feel at peace. She was 96 years old and a feisty lady in her younger days. She had really good baking skills and could make a great Lemon Meringue Pie - though my mom's is just as good if not better. She taught us all sorts of card games such as Go Fish and King's Corner. She loved to dance and would sing as she put on her various lotions each day. One time while I was visiting her in Florida she took me and my Dad to Daytona Beach - my only trip there ever- and we parked right on the beach and even let me sunbathe on the hood of her car. That was quite the experience.
I remember that when I got my driver's license that she sent me a nice keychain that had "New Driver" written on it. I think I still have it somewhere. She always remembered our birthdays and never minded the little kid chatter and silence when she called us or we called her on the phone. I was thrilled when she moved back to MA from FL in 1996. She and my Papa Sarno- my grandfather - had moved to FL when I was 2 and I missed having her around even though she came to visit just about every summer starting in 1979.
She attended my wedding in 1999 and also attended my cousin's wedding a few weeks later but looking at the photos today, we could see that Alzheimer's was already starting to claim her from us even then. When my Dad died in 2001, she was already a patient in a lockdown Alzheimer's unit and we didn't have the heart to tell her that he was gone. Thirteen months later we didn't have the heart to tell her that her youngest son had passed also. Hopefully today when she saw them in Heaven she wasn't too mad at us for not telling her. But she might have been too busy reuniting with my grandfather to be too upset.
Love you Nana... you were a wonderful Grandmother and will be missed.
Madeline Izzo Sarno 5/9/1914 - 1/19/2011
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