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The experience of sharing your stories<br />
in a private autobiography for the family<br />
Copyright © <strong>2020</strong> Private Autobiography Service, Inc.<br />
All rights reserved.<br />
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in which it is published.<br />
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Printed and bound in the U.K.<br />
<strong>LifeTime</strong> Memoirs<br />
Private Autobiography Service, Inc. (legal entity)<br />
503 E Summit Street Head office:<br />
Crown Point<br />
LifeBook Ltd<br />
IN 46307<br />
Hascombe Road<br />
U.S.A.<br />
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<strong>LifeTime</strong>memoirs.com United Kingdom v.<strong>2020</strong>.1<br />
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There are<br />
The pieces<br />
of jewelry<br />
The expensive<br />
watches<br />
The paintings<br />
in the study<br />
But there<br />
is surely<br />
no more<br />
personal gift<br />
to give your<br />
loved ones<br />
Than YOU<br />
In one<br />
beautifully<br />
written<br />
lavishly<br />
illustrated<br />
handcrafted<br />
volume<br />
How you<br />
grew up<br />
Found<br />
a career<br />
Fell<br />
in love<br />
Started<br />
a family<br />
Memories Adventures Milestones<br />
It’s time to tell your story<br />
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Welcome to<br />
<strong>LifeTime</strong> Memoirs<br />
Your opportunity to create a unique piece of family treasure and share<br />
it with generations to come.<br />
How? By settling down and telling your children and your grandchildren,<br />
perhaps even your great-grandchildren, your life story.<br />
With the help of our team—interviewers, ghostwriters, project managers,<br />
editors, typesetters, proofreaders, printers, and bookbinders—now is the<br />
time to write your autobiography.<br />
When your <strong>LifeTime</strong> Memoir is finished, you will have 10 beautifully<br />
illustrated copies for the ones who matter most to you. You will be<br />
giving them the gift of a lifetime. Yours.<br />
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Letter from the Founder<br />
<strong>LifeTime</strong> Memoirs<br />
Private Autobiography Service, Inc. (legal entity)<br />
503 E Summit Street<br />
Crown Point<br />
IN 46307<br />
U.S.A.<br />
My Story to Your Story<br />
I started LifeBook, the U.K. parent company of <strong>LifeTime</strong> Memoirs,<br />
as a project for my father. Now it has a life of its own.<br />
A <strong>LifeTime</strong> Memoir is the story of your life, in a book you will be<br />
proud to put your name to.<br />
In the same way we will be proud to help you produce it.<br />
Why not ask our authors if the experience has been worth it.<br />
Better still ask their loved ones, who between them have read<br />
the thousands of <strong>LifeTime</strong> Memoirs that have gone to print.<br />
They glow with pride: families, children, and grandchildren.<br />
They all tell us the same thing. They’ve been given something<br />
—a piece of family history—which no-one can put a price on.<br />
That’s why if you think it’s time to tell your story, we’re here to<br />
help you do just this.<br />
Your story. Your legacy. Your gift for generations to come.<br />
<strong>LifeTime</strong> Memoirs. The gift of a lifetime.<br />
Roy Moëd, LifeBook founder<br />
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It couldn’t be<br />
easier for you<br />
There is no greater gift that you can give to the next<br />
generations of your family than the story of your life.<br />
Only, too many of us toy with the idea before deciding<br />
we are not writers.<br />
Except that, with the right help, all of us are.<br />
Becoming the author of your own<br />
<strong>LifeTime</strong> Memoir and telling your story<br />
couldn’t be an easier, more stimulating,<br />
and life-affirming experience.<br />
It begins with the welcome pack to guide<br />
you through the journey you’re about to<br />
embark on.<br />
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There are three stages.<br />
1. Reminisce<br />
First you just have to talk to one of our interviewers. Over the course<br />
of twelve 90-minute conversations your story will unfold.<br />
2. Read<br />
Next you simply read and review. Every minute of your conversations<br />
has been recorded and entrusted to one of our ghostwriters, chosen<br />
for their ability to write your story in your “voice.”<br />
3. Relax<br />
When you’re happy with your manuscript, complete with photographs<br />
and significant family documents, it’s time for the third and final stage:<br />
production.<br />
Soon 10 copies of a beautifully bound, section-sewn, linen-covered,<br />
hard back book will be on their way to you. Your autobiography, in<br />
your hands, on your bookshelf.<br />
Oh, and of course, the fourth stage. To share and enjoy your<br />
<strong>LifeTime</strong> Memoir with those who matter most: your children, your<br />
grandchildren, your great-grandchildren.<br />
Excited? Now read on . . .<br />
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It’s a labor<br />
of love for us<br />
We understand just how meaningful it is to commit your life story<br />
to print.<br />
So, while we make the writing experience as easy as we can for you,<br />
we bring a level of best practice, attention to detail, and painstaking<br />
craft to everything on our side.<br />
It is the only way to show how seriously we take the privilege of<br />
telling your story and creating your piece of family history.<br />
That’s why it requires a team: project manager, interviewer, ghostwriter,<br />
editor, typesetter, proofreader, printer, and bookbinder.<br />
The Project Manager<br />
If you’ve ever started to try to write before and then stopped,<br />
you’ll quickly realize how important your project manager is.<br />
They are the ones who make sure everyone keeps to the timetable.<br />
They know how to encourage, without ever pressurizing.<br />
They give you time to review what we have produced, while making<br />
sure the project never loses momentum.<br />
Some of our authors become lifelong friends with their project managers,<br />
sending updates of how family and friends have loved their story.<br />
Long before your book goes on the press, you’ll appreciate that your<br />
project manager is the central cog in the <strong>LifeTime</strong> Memoirs machine.<br />
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The Interviewer<br />
Chapter 1. Everything starts with your interviews.<br />
That’s why your interviewer’s most important quality has to be their<br />
ability to listen.<br />
So, once we know a little bit about you, it is all about matching you<br />
with the right person.<br />
Not just to listen but to probe and push and tease out the story you<br />
want to tell. The context, the personalities, the drama. The events that<br />
shaped your life. The story of you.<br />
Your interviewer is such an important figure in your <strong>LifeTime</strong> project<br />
that if we don’t have the right person, we go out and find them.<br />
It adds to the time (anything from 2 to 8 weeks) but you shouldn’t tell<br />
your life story to just anyone.<br />
Twelve 90-minute meetings over four to five months follow, with each<br />
at a time arranged to suit you. Ten of the meetings are for storytelling,<br />
the last two for reviewing your manuscript.<br />
Your interviewer doesn’t come alone either. A state-of-the-art scanner<br />
comes too, for scanning the photographs and documents that are also<br />
part of your story. And everything is recorded because when the talking<br />
stops, your ghostwriter must start.<br />
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The Ghostwriter<br />
Every one of our ghostwriters has devoted their entire career to<br />
the written word, whether in media, journalism, or academia.<br />
Your chosen writer will craft your words, find “your” voice, and<br />
become you.<br />
Your life story could not be in better hands.<br />
Even so, you’ll receive regular drafts—“words in progress”—and you<br />
can always discuss changes when you meet your interviewer at your<br />
review sessions.<br />
If you forget something during an interview, you can add it in at<br />
your next one.<br />
The night you saw that unknown four-piece band in Liverpool,<br />
that split-second the doctor looked at the two of you and said<br />
“triplets,” your writer will find a home for it, in your story.<br />
The Editor<br />
Next the honing and polishing of “your” words. With your writer<br />
comes your editor.<br />
Their first task: to scrutinize the working draft and make sure it is<br />
free of mistakes.<br />
However, it is about more than correct spelling and accurate dates.<br />
Your editor will pore over your narrative, seeing that it flows, picking<br />
up on areas which may need more telling, and above all making sure<br />
the tone of the writing really reflects your personality.<br />
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The Producers<br />
You are now ready to go on the greatest journey any autobiographer<br />
ever makes, from galley proof to beautifully bound, section-sewn,<br />
linen-covered hardback book, in the company of our typesetters,<br />
proofreaders, printers, and bookbinders. Their meticulous (maybe<br />
it’s obsessive) attachment to proper craft skills won’t disappoint you.<br />
The Craft Skills<br />
First, one of our typesetters will take charge of design and layout,<br />
the seamless marriage of text and imagery.<br />
Then it must pass under the zero-tolerance gaze of our proofreaders.<br />
And your gaze too. You’ll also receive a set of proofs.<br />
Then when everything is perfect, error-free, and signed off, it is time<br />
to go to print. Printing, stitching, and binding are specialist crafts.<br />
The book is, in fact, made in sections and sewn into the whole.<br />
This way any page opened will lie flat. It’s easier to read this way<br />
and it will never split.<br />
Then there is the linen cover, embossed with gold or silver lettering,<br />
and a bespoke dust jacket before your book is placed in its gift box<br />
and shipped directly to you. In fact, you will receive 10 copies.<br />
Finally, a word about the paper we print on: 148gsm archival Mohawk,<br />
the highest quality there is for books.<br />
It’s guaranteed to last 100 years. It will probably last much longer.<br />
Like every great life story.<br />
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Your Photographs<br />
There are some things that can’t be put into words.<br />
A look, a smile, a time, a place.<br />
Pictures, newspaper cuttings, wedding certificates, school reports.<br />
Documents, perhaps ones that have been hidden in attic boxes for<br />
decades, are a vital part of your story.<br />
So, in the safety of your own home, we scan them and bring every<br />
single one that you want to include back to life.<br />
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Your Audio Mini-Book<br />
A <strong>LifeTime</strong> Memoir is your story in your voice. So, besides the printed<br />
words are your spoken ones.<br />
In your final meeting we record you reading your favorite excerpts<br />
from the book.<br />
These 60-minute Audio Highlights are part of the USB Mini-Book,<br />
which comes with the actual <strong>LifeTime</strong> Memoir, and includes a digital<br />
version of it, your copyrighted Word document, and scans of your<br />
carefully restored images.<br />
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Project manager<br />
introduction<br />
Interviewer<br />
introduction<br />
First<br />
interview:<br />
The setup<br />
Second<br />
interview<br />
& photo<br />
selection<br />
Third<br />
interview<br />
Fourth<br />
interview<br />
& photo<br />
selection<br />
Fifth<br />
interview<br />
Sixth<br />
interview<br />
& photo<br />
selection<br />
Review<br />
One<br />
Review<br />
Two<br />
Ghostwriter & Editor<br />
Ghostwriter & Editor<br />
Ghostwriter &<br />
Project manager<br />
You’ve lived the life<br />
Here’s how we tell the story<br />
It’s worth taking a look at the <strong>LifeTime</strong> Memoirs journey. You’ll<br />
realize just how easy we’ve made it for you to create such a unique and<br />
lasting piece of family history. Essentially you use the interviews to<br />
tell us your story and then, in the company of your project manager,<br />
review our progress through to the finished printed article.<br />
This is your side of the story (it’s highlighted in blue here on the chart).<br />
Ours, as you can see, is to devote as much love, attention, and craft skill<br />
as we can to producing something worthy of such a wonderful life.<br />
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Seventh<br />
interview<br />
Review<br />
Three<br />
Eighth<br />
interview<br />
& photo<br />
scanning<br />
Ninth<br />
interview<br />
Review<br />
Four<br />
Tenth<br />
interview<br />
& photo<br />
scanning<br />
Eleventh<br />
meeting<br />
Twelfth<br />
meeting<br />
Audio<br />
Highlights<br />
recording<br />
Main Review<br />
Editor Ghostwriter & Editor Ghostwriter & Editor<br />
Sound<br />
editor<br />
Typesetting<br />
Project manager<br />
Proofreading<br />
Printing<br />
Bookbinding<br />
Delivery<br />
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Meet the<br />
authors<br />
Still, don’t take our word for the pleasure that <strong>LifeTime</strong> Memoirs<br />
will bring you. Take the words of our authors.<br />
Meet some of the autobiographers who have already told their stories<br />
with the help of LifeBook (U.K.) and <strong>LifeTime</strong> Memoirs (U.S.A.).<br />
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Mr. Harry Gow (and family), U.K. author of “What’s Your Name?”<br />
“Me Gow”<br />
“I had wanted to write my memoirs for a long time and, at one time, had even<br />
tried to do them myself with the help of my son. When I came across LifeBook,<br />
I knew this was what I needed to help me put my memories down on paper.<br />
I set about doing so and, from start to finish, creating my autobiography<br />
with LifeBook was a fantastic six-month adventure.<br />
My interviewer was first class and I thoroughly enjoyed my sessions with her.<br />
The quality of my autobiography is exceptional and the books themselves are<br />
beautiful. LifeBook was, at all times during my project, completely professional<br />
and every team member gave me the support I needed when I needed it.<br />
I’m extremely satisfied with my books and delighted to be able to share my<br />
treasured memories and stories with my family. On top of that, I have<br />
thoroughly enjoyed recalling my stories, both in the telling of them and, now,<br />
by reading them in my LifeBook. I’d highly recommend LifeBook to others –<br />
it’s a wonderful experience that produces a superb end result.”<br />
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Mrs. Adele Hatcher, <strong>LifeTime</strong> Memoirs author of Life and Blessings<br />
“When my book arrived and I started sharing it with our children, grandchildren,<br />
and great-grandchildren, the reaction was real joy. They could not put the book<br />
down until they had finished reading about their roots and my life.<br />
As a result of this window into our family and my life, my family has become<br />
closer to one another, their heritage, and to me. They now know me as a whole<br />
person, not just the one part of my life that involved them. Having finished<br />
this story has given me a peace and joy in knowing now I will be remembered<br />
as part of their lives and even the ones I will never live to see can read my story.<br />
I know that my life will always be a part of them in some way.”<br />
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“The past six months have been a moving and emotional experience for both my<br />
family and me, and this has finally given me the joy of reading ‘my unique story’.<br />
My family and friends are so pleased with my book and the comments about<br />
it have been fantastic. It is very comforting to think that my descendants will<br />
have the pleasure of reading about my life and our family.<br />
I recommend everyone use LifeBook if they want to tell their story.”<br />
Dr. Brian Thomas, U.K. author of Life of Bri<br />
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“I received a ‘welcome pack’ the morning after speaking to Roy Moëd, the founder,<br />
and, I have to say, I was immediately impressed with the quality of what I<br />
received. I found the journal most interesting and informative, and I can see<br />
how other authors could find it very useful and helpful too.<br />
My project manager was my one-to-one contact for the whole of the project; what<br />
pleased me was that, in this day and age, I could dial a number and my project<br />
manager would answer straightaway. I was supported totally throughout the project.<br />
My interviewer was a very nice young lady who lived reasonably local to me.<br />
We met as strangers but quickly became good friends. Friends who have read<br />
the book have said that it was like me talking; I felt as if the ghostwriter could<br />
read my mind. She conveyed my story perfectly, and there was a flow throughout.<br />
On the day I received and opened the parcel of 10 copies, it brought tears to<br />
my eyes, and I felt very proud. The product is first class, the process could not<br />
be bettered and the team are totally professional. Thank you.”<br />
Mr. Alan Beckett, U.K. author of I Did It My Way<br />
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Read the<br />
authors<br />
Just how unique will your life story be?<br />
How special and lasting a contribution will it make to your<br />
family history?<br />
Before you start writing, take inspiration from these extracts<br />
that other <strong>LifeTime</strong> Memoirs authors are proud to share.<br />
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Approved extract from<br />
‘Gramps’<br />
by Phil Kuhl<br />
Grandpa Yates’s<br />
Influence in the<br />
Early Days<br />
One of the most important people in my life was my Grandpa<br />
“Tedder” Yates. He taught me about life and became important<br />
to me without me even realizing it. He was somebody really special to<br />
me. Even now, years after he died, I would love to sit down and talk<br />
with my grandpa. Maybe I need one of his ‘“Atta boys,” maybe I want<br />
to tell him about everything I’ve done in my life and how he helped<br />
me. I still miss him.<br />
Grandpa always introduced me to new people, saying, “This is my<br />
grandson.” He loved baseball and wanted to become a professional<br />
ball player. Grandpa worshipped the St. Louis Cardinals and never<br />
missed a game on the radio, but he never saw a Cardinals game in<br />
person. Once I tried to get him to a game in his later years, but it<br />
didn’t happen. He chewed Red Man tobacco. I can still visualize<br />
him in a rocking chair in the living room of his small home, with<br />
the radio blaring the Cardinals, play by play. Alongside his chair<br />
was an empty can, which would serve as his “spittoon” for the Red<br />
Man. He would stare ahead, listening to every word, smiling at a<br />
strikeout by the opponent or a home run by his team. I’m sure<br />
he could “see” every play, every gesture. Every now and then, he<br />
would shout, “Well, Jesus Christ!” expressing his displeasure about<br />
a muffed play.<br />
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Gramps never missed any of my high school baseball or basketball<br />
games either. I played first base and pitched as a lefty. He would come<br />
to my games with a folding chair, sitting on the first base line just past<br />
the home dugout. I could hear his constant critique. Grandpa was<br />
an icon to local players. He was blunt and loud but knowledgeable.<br />
The players respected him because they knew how he loved the game.<br />
The baseball team carried his casket at his funeral, and the Miles<br />
American Legion team signed a baseball that was displayed at<br />
his visitation.<br />
Gramps loved to take me fishing and always invited me to help<br />
with tasks like slaughtering chickens, cleaning the storage room at<br />
the store, delivering groceries, and working in his garden. He was<br />
the one who taught me how to work, he talked to me about what’s<br />
right, and he was proud of me. He often came to visit my family<br />
when I grew up. One of the things I did for him before he died at age<br />
86 was shave him. A day or two before he died, I got a mug of soap<br />
and shaved him, because he couldn’t shave himself. Gramps was still<br />
sharp and still interested in me that day. He watched an Indiana<br />
basketball game on the day he died. Larry Bird played for Indiana<br />
at that time, and Gramps loved Larry Bird! I believe he became<br />
attracted to Indiana because his second wife, Hazel Stapleton, came<br />
from Indiana.<br />
One of my favorite things I did with Grandpa was fishing in<br />
the Mississippi River. He bought this little cabin that was shaped<br />
like half a corrugated metal culvert. It was located in a cow pasture<br />
about a half mile from the river. He built a wooden fence around it<br />
to keep the cows away and a table for cleaning fish. Grandpa took<br />
me to the cabin a lot. It was quaint and quiet, very primitive with<br />
no electricity. The refrigerator was a block of ice in an icebox. We<br />
slept in a double bed, and there was a small cooking area, a couch,<br />
and a couple chairs. I have great early memories of that place and<br />
my grandfather.<br />
The cabin was on the west side of the Mississippi River Valley.<br />
The river was the main highway of frontier America, and, years ago,<br />
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Native Americans had lived there. Grandpa’s cabin sat in a pasture<br />
strewn with evidence of their lives. The area was literally an Indian<br />
graveyard, with burial mounds on the ridge above. We often found<br />
arrowheads, stone mauls, and chisels in the creek where we got<br />
drinking water.<br />
Gramps and I had our “fishing routine” for those trips to the<br />
river. First we “picked” night crawlers. Picking night crawlers was<br />
something we did the night before our trip to the river. After dark,<br />
with a flashlight in hand, we would search the wet grass for these<br />
large worms that would only surface at night. On occasion, we would<br />
dig “garden worms” when night crawlers were not very abundant.<br />
Loaded with our bait, we would head to the Mississippi, about a<br />
mile’s walk from the cabin.<br />
Gramps kept a flat-bottom boat on the shore tied to a tree. We<br />
would load our fishing equipment and head out. Our first task was<br />
always to set out a trot-line. This was a long heavy cord with about<br />
50 hooks spaced about three feet apart. We would bait the hooks<br />
and lay the line in the river. The line would have a big weight on<br />
one end and would be tied to some stump or tree on the other end.<br />
We would then head back to the cabin for breakfast. Gramps was a<br />
great cook!<br />
I can still see him frying up some thick bacon or pork chops for<br />
breakfast. Fried potatoes, toast, and a couple of eggs fried “basted”<br />
in bacon fat was really good after our morning’s efforts. Then<br />
Gramps would take a piece of white bread and sop up all the bacon<br />
grease still left in the frying pan, chomp it down, and say, “This is<br />
the best part.”<br />
Gramps loved “fat,” and he chewed Red Man his entire life. He<br />
was not a drinker; in fact, I do not recall him even drinking a beer,<br />
nor did he ever smoke. But Gramps was a man’s man, confident,<br />
loved to kid, and lived to 86 without ever missing a trick. He was as<br />
sharp at 86 as he was when I was a small child.<br />
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Approved extract from<br />
Gold Street to Golden Years<br />
by Jerrie Rudd<br />
Celebrating Milestones<br />
My daughter always did parties for my birthdays. For my 50th<br />
birthday, she had a male belly dancer. I had my chair out in<br />
the middle of everybody, and he was dancing up close to me. Next<br />
thing I knew, he had me up dancing, shaking, gyrating with him. His<br />
surprise appearance was fun and caused laughter.<br />
On my 60th birthday, I threw a “thank you” party for my customers.<br />
I also invited my family and old friends. We had it at Oak Run in our<br />
recreation building. It wasn’t anything fancy by a long shot. It was 100<br />
degrees that day and there were about 100 people there in this packed<br />
room. The sweat was just dripping off everyone, and some couldn’t<br />
stand it and had to leave. Still, we had a great time. There was such a<br />
big turnout, I couldn’t believe it. Of course, I had put on the invitation<br />
“NO PRESENTS,” just their presence. However, one of our older<br />
friends had come up with an idea for people to bring 60 pennies in<br />
some unique way. She called quite a few people and, I tell you, talk<br />
about clever people.<br />
My husband was so funny about things, and he said, “You can’t open<br />
those presents because you said no presents. What about the people<br />
who didn’t bring anything?” Well, I should have opened them, because<br />
people had gone to a lot of effort. One couple I had sold a lakefront lot<br />
to had made a big poster with pictures of the lot before and after they<br />
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had built their house. They had 60 pennies around it as a frame that<br />
read, “Helping Us Make Our Dream Come True.” Another couple,<br />
who hadn’t made it to the party, visited a week later and brought a<br />
clock they’d made out of pennies stuck on a paper plate. People put in<br />
a lot of work on an array of unique 60-penny gifts.<br />
I do remember one lady’s gift was a “Happy 50th” button, and I said,<br />
“Oh my gosh! Thank you, but it’s my 60th.”<br />
She said, “Jerrie, it can’t be. You’re fibbing to me.”<br />
I said, “No, it’s my 60th.”<br />
“Oh,” she said. “When we got the invitation, I said to my husband<br />
that has to be a typographical error. She cannot be 60 years old.” Of<br />
course, I could have hugged and kissed her at that point.<br />
For my 80th, the party was at my daughter’s house. She had a small<br />
house, but she had worked in her yard really hard so that the party could<br />
be outside. My husband paid for all the tents, the tables, the chairs, and<br />
the food; it was a joint family effort. Well, on the day of the party, it<br />
poured in buckets. Absolute buckets. At the last minute, they had to<br />
scramble around and move the furniture to make room for the chairs<br />
and the food.<br />
Eighty people showed up, and I couldn’t believe it in that downpour.<br />
I’d even said as we walked up to the house, “Somebody’s having a big<br />
party on the street, look at all the cars.” I walked in my daughter’s front<br />
door, and I could not have faked the look on my face. Total surprise.<br />
There were people such as my best friend from first grade, right<br />
through to my current neighbors in Peoria. Even one of my Belles of<br />
Harmony friends, who was 101 years old, came. There was someone there<br />
from every era of my life except the two years we lived in Lee Center.<br />
What a beautiful, beautiful day that was. I just couldn’t believe there<br />
were so many people. I’ve been very blessed with such good friends. I’m<br />
very thankful for all that and a wonderful family, too, because all my<br />
extended family were there—young and old. I will forever remember<br />
that day; the work put into that party was such an act of love.<br />
I also gave myself an 80th birthday present. At Christmas, before<br />
my birthday in August, I gave my daughter and her companion, my<br />
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two grandkids and their companions, and my partner and me tickets<br />
to go on a Caribbean cruise. We spent a week on the Oasis of the Seas,<br />
a ship that has 16 decks. My grandkids and their friends did not miss<br />
a thing. They were going, going, going the whole time.<br />
I even zip-lined on that trip. The ship had a zip-line, and I said,<br />
“I want to zip-line.” Of course, my grandkids especially were shouting,<br />
“Go, Grandma, go, go!” My partner was asking what would happen if<br />
the line broke and I fell, but I still wanted to have a go at it. It was on<br />
my “bucket list.”<br />
I tell you, I loved it. If there hadn’t been such a long waiting line,<br />
I would have gone a second time. It was so much fun, and, of course, my<br />
grandson put pictures of me on Facebook—“Grandma zip-lining for her<br />
80th birthday.” We had a great time, and I was so happy that my family<br />
cruise plan had come to pass. It was very special, and I was so thankful<br />
that we could get everyone together. To get eight people’s schedules to<br />
work out for a week took some changing around, but it was wonderful.<br />
Maybe for my 90th birthday, I’ll do it again, the Good Lord willing.<br />
Zip-lining and a seven-mile bicycle ride tackled at ages 79 and<br />
80. Whoopee! I guess I can now tick these off on my bucket list as<br />
“accomplished!”<br />
Jerrie’s 80th birthday party, total surprise! 2015<br />
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Grandma Mattie’s Girls<br />
Grandma Mattie had been a widow since the age of 37. Then, one<br />
day, she made the decision that she shouldn’t live alone. She called the<br />
nursing home, which was brand new in Peoria, and made arrangements.<br />
She went on to live there for 10 years.<br />
The day after one of Aunt June’s garage sales, we local cousins were<br />
going through leftover clothing. We decided to dress up in the craziest<br />
outfits we could find, then head up to Grandma Mattie’s nursing home<br />
for a visit. Mom and Aunt June were there, and when we paraded in<br />
in these outfits, they cracked up. Grandma Mattie didn’t know what<br />
to think of her granddaughters and her great-granddaughters in her<br />
private style show.<br />
We had so much fun doing this and then stopping by Dairy<br />
Queen for ice cream with only 25 cents. A bunch of nutty Wynn<br />
family females. This was the birth of our reunion idea that came to<br />
pass years later.<br />
Our first reunion of any size was held in The Villages, FL. Nine<br />
cousins made it. Comfortable housing and plans for several outings<br />
were planned. We were all ready for a fun time and had made sure<br />
there was plenty of wine. Our most energetic outing was to the Katie<br />
Belle, an old-fashioned dance hall. Great live music and good food.<br />
We have so many memories of our visits with Grandma. We made<br />
up our game—Drink or Smell. We had our own rules for bunco, and<br />
whoever won got a drink of Pepsi—if you lost, you only got a smell of<br />
Pepsi. Pepsi was a big treat in those days. There were other games with<br />
her, but this was the one remembered most in years to come.<br />
At bedtime, you wouldn’t dream of undressing with the light on or<br />
the shades not drawn—and before going to sleep, your nighttime prayers<br />
were the end of a day spent with Grandma.<br />
Heaven only knows where the song Chick-a-racka came from;<br />
however, Grandma taught this song, along with the poem I Went to Visit<br />
Grandma One Cold Thanksgiving Day, to all her grandchildren. These<br />
are now being passed on to the fourth generation. Great memories.<br />
Hopefully this tradition will be passed on for years and years to come.<br />
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