Week 4 (January 22-28): I'd Like to Meet

I'd Like to Meet

So this is not an easy one.  I knew 4 grandparents and 1 great-grandparent.  Maybe I wish I heard more of their stories from THEM.  It was a time when "children should be seen and not heard" and that's pretty much how things went when we were with our grandparents.

I think my paternal grandfather was not as scary as he made himself out to be.  He seemed to be amazing in the "rearview mirror"!  Stories I heard AFTER he was gone were interesting. Involved in the construction of the Geroge Washington Bridge (NY/NJ).  I know he loved boating as a young man and a retired man.  He was the first Commodore of the yacht club in Lakewood, NJ and apparently was quite the sailor.  I do have a few memories of him laughing HEARTILY, but mostly he was a grumpy, old German.  I guess I was old enough to actually have an adult conversation with him.

 I really know very little about my paternal grandmother - other than she was beautiful and kind and had an amazing smile - and I never met any of her siblings and never even heard stories about them.  It makes me sad that none of this was really ever shared.



There is one person I never met who interests me-  and there is ONE PHOTO that makes me wish I had met him. My paternal Grandmother's brother:  Joseph Alfred Lachaussee 1887–1958.  I know very little about him, but he LOOKS COOL.    He MAY be the one who wrote his autobiography.  I have to do some digging-  I think I have a copy SOMEWHERE!    BUT... this is the guy- 

Look at the smile-  he knows something we don't know!  

Yes, this is the person I would have liked to meet.