Jacob postponed his winter trip to California to attend our
wedding in September of 1962. He liked
to attend the weddings of his grandchildren. He was there for the event and we
had a wonderful time. He even brought us two wedding gifts.
The one was a vegetable bowl from the dime store that we
were to use every day and it would remind us of him. It was a pretty china
bowl, cream colored with some little pink flowers on it. I thought it was very
pretty and special and wanted to put it in the cupboard for special occasions,
but Harold said no, grandpa wanted us to use it. And so we did, almost every
day it would hold the potatoes or vegetable or jello we were having for dinner.
We used it often and for quite a few years until one day when it broke. Now it has been
fifty years since we were married and we still remember that bowl and grandpa.
The second gift he gave us – we have no idea what it was!
Grandpa Jacob never got to California that winter. He ended
up getting sick and in the spring he passed away. He was 96 years old.
