Have you ever thought back about how much things can change
in a hundred years? Just recently, I had
the opportunity to reminisce about this due to a wonderful woman that has been
a part of my life for 44 years. Let’s
first take you back to 1914. What was
going on and what was the significance of this year you may ask?
Well here are a few known and important facts about 1914…
- - Ford Motor Company wages jump from $2.40/9-hr day
to $5.00/8-hr day
- - 1st steamboat passes through Panama Canal
- - Henry Ford introduces an assembly line for Model
T
- - NY Giants & Chicago White Sox play an
exhibition baseball game in Egypt
- - 1st airplane flight from LA to SF
- - The Republic of China joins the Universal Postal
Union
- - 1st successful blood transfusion (in Brussels)
- - Babe Ruth's 1st professional game (as a pitcher)
is a 6-hit 6-0 win
- - Ship rams Canadian ship Empress of Ireland on St
Lawrence R; 1024 die
- - US signs treaty of commerce with Ethiopia
- - Austria-Hungary issues ultimatum to Serbia
leading to WW I
- - World
War I begins on 28th of July
- - The largest one-day percentage drop in the
history of Dow Jones Industrial Average, down 24.39%.
- - German plane drops bombs on Dover England
- - Colonel Jacob Ruppert & Cap Huston purchase
NY Yankees for $460,000
Looking at all of these events that happened in world history
in the year 1914 there are none of them that are as important or as great as
one single event within that same given year.
That one date was the birth of a very special woman on the 11th of July.
Her name...Sybil Oxborrow.
Sybil came from a family of eleven siblings and was second to
the youngest child. She ended up finding
a good man to marry named Delile Terry and had eight kids of her own. An avid fisherman herself, she loved to spend
time each summer at their favorite destination known as Hot Creek. She had a total of thirty-eight grandkids, forty-three
great grand kids and twenty great great grand kids. Truly an amazingly legacy from one amazing
person.
I want to direct you to a wonderful tribute about Sybil written
by my Mother entitled, “An Expert in her Field”. I couldn’t have said things as nicely or as
eloquently about Sybil as my Mother. She truly had an amazing ability to write.
http://marleneterry.blogspot.com/2013/11/an-expert-in-her-field.html.
Also I want to share with you one more time my Grandmother’s
astonishing ability to play the piano if you missed it the first time around.
It really is something to behold… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHAmHDQuMII
Finally, I am so proud to say that I have known this person
and have had the opportunity to have her as a part of my life as my
“Grandma!” I can only image the “family
reunion” she must be having right now with her hubby, her parents, her grandparents, her eleven siblings, my
Mom, her daughter and all those that truly loved her and have been
patiently waiting for her. “Grandma, I
am going to miss you terribly in this life (as I shed a tear) and have to say "goodbye" for now, but I am so happy for you that you
are free from pain and that you are finally HOME! I LOVE YOU!
****Due to the loss of our
Grandmother and Best Friend, “In A Nutshell” will return on
Wednesday, April 9th so that we may cry…laugh…be together and
celebrate the wonderful life of Sybil.
Thanks SO MUCH for your support!!!****
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