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August 10, 2005
Grandpa with Aggie
My grandpa, Reuben "Bill" Henry Doss, died last night.
Five things about my grandpa:
5. He lived in snow caves during WWII and saw Mussolini hung in the Piazza Loreto in Italy.
4. His family was so poor when he was a child that one year for Christmas they got tin cups filled with cow poop in their stockings, just so they'd have something.
3. My grandpa taught my brother and I how to kill a rattle snake, shoot a gun and catch a rabbit with nothing but a box, a stick and a carrot.
2. He gave me my love for dogs. In fact, he gave us our first dog ever, a poodle named Tiger. He also died with Olive, my parent's poodle that had pretty much adopted my grandpa as her owner, laying in his lap.
1. He loved his wife and daughter, very, very much.
Posted by meloknee at August 10, 2005 12:54 PM
Comments
Sorry to hear about your loss. Pretty cool that you are a descendent of a man who lived in a snow cave and saw Mussolini draw his last breath. I hope that I am that cool some day. My best stories still involve alcohol and women and really aren't that useful to anyone. My best offering is how to make a good pan sauce; you know how to kill rabbits and snakes.
Posted by: Chris aka Not Sally at August 10, 2005 01:29 PM
Yeah, it was cool, as a kid, in the summer we'd always complain, "I don't want to spend the week at grandma and grandpa's, they don't have video games or cable." Then we'd get there and do so many exciting things like kill our dinner and eat snake.
Posted by: melanie at August 10, 2005 01:58 PM
Don't make me cry! You know I never let anyone cry alone. You had a really cool grandpa and you have great memories. Maybe he's meeting up with my grandparents and my dad and they'll all be friends too.
Posted by: bugg at August 10, 2005 02:04 PM
Requiescat in pace, Grandpa.
Posted by: Ismael at August 10, 2005 05:32 PM
i just dropped in to say hi and then your post almost made me cry....
awww...i'm really sorry about your grandpa...he sounds like he could have gotten along with my great grandmother, who was one of those rough, country, tobacco chewing, shotgun carrying women.
Posted by: neko at August 11, 2005 09:11 AM
Yeah, I wonder what my grandma and my folks will do with all his guns?!
Thanks for all the kind words everyone :)
Posted by: melanie at August 11, 2005 12:59 PM