{"id":4193,"date":"2011-10-16T21:04:46","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T02:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=4193"},"modified":"2011-10-16T21:16:34","modified_gmt":"2011-10-17T02:16:34","slug":"grandma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=4193","title":{"rendered":"Grandma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mary Catherine Gegg Wintz<\/strong><br \/>\nDecember 15, 1922-October 11, 2011<\/p>\n<p><strong>Daughter<\/strong> of Tony and Clara<br \/>\n<strong>Sister<\/strong> of Justin<br \/>\n<strong>Wife<\/strong> of Bill<br \/>\n<strong>Mother<\/strong> of Renee<br \/>\n<strong>Grandmother<\/strong> of Megan, Kevin, and Katie&#8230;and then Clint and JD as they married in to the family<br \/>\n<strong>GreatGrandmother<\/strong> of Emma<br \/>\n<strong>Special Friend<\/strong> of Tommy<\/p>\n<p>This past Friday, we celebrated the life of my sweet Grandma.\u00a0 She lived almost 89 years and left us with lots of fun memories.\u00a0 I can assure you that there is no sadness as we know that Grandma is in heaven and reunited with Grandpa, her parents, her brother, and Tommy.\u00a0 I am so grateful to have had Grandma in my life for 33 years.\u00a0 I was privileged to grow up in the same town that she lived in (Memphis) and to even share several years of living very close by.\u00a0 Even in the 10 years that I have lived away from Memphis, we have always remained close.\u00a0 I am so glad that my daughter had a chance to get to know Grandma and what a special lady she was.<\/p>\n<p>As we celebrated her life, several great memories came to life this past weekend&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For the remainder of my life, I will always think of Grandma when the Santa cokes are put out at Christmas time.\u00a0 Hers weren&#8217;t usually from this Christmas&#8230;but they still had some fizz.\u00a0 And&#8230;it was always good to go once she wrapped a paper towel around it.<\/li>\n<li>My sister Katie grew up thinking that chocolate cake could solve just about anything.\u00a0 That came from my Grandma&#8217;s allowing her to eat that for lunch when Grandma and Grandpa would take us out to Houlihan&#8217;s for Sunday brunch after church.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ll have a Frosty in honor of Grandma for the rest of my life.\u00a0 Grandma loved Wendy&#8217;s and we all shared some great memories there.\u00a0 In her later years, she would always perk up if we mentioned bringing her Wendy&#8217;s.\u00a0 Pickles on the side..in a little cup&#8230;yes, a lot of them.\u00a0 And, heads up if she had ice water.\u00a0 She was known for dipping her napkin in the frigid water to wash three grandkids faces.\u00a0 Quite shocking if you weren&#8217;t aware of this maneuver.<\/li>\n<li>She went through a phase a few years ago where she would &#8220;pop&#8221; her collar.\u00a0 We kept trying to fix it for her when she finally told us that she did it because she heard it makes you look younger.<\/li>\n<li>When she purchased her first answering machine, she asked me to come over and help her with it.\u00a0 She must have recorded that message 15 times.\u00a0 She was very concerned that she not sound too old on the message.\u00a0 What she ended up with was sort of startling&#8230;but it seemed to do the trick for her.<\/li>\n<li>Grandma always struggled a little to be on time.\u00a0 So&#8230;to combat this, she set all of her clocks ahead by about 20 minutes.\u00a0 The only problem with this strategy&#8230;she knew all the clocks were ahead and still knew she had 20 more minutes!\u00a0 It was a little stressful for the rest of the world if you didn&#8217;t know this little trick about her clocks.<\/li>\n<li>Yellow notepads will also always hold a special place in my heart.\u00a0 Grandma wrote everything down&#8230;everything&#8230;and then she wrote it again.\u00a0 Anytime I&#8217;d call Grandma, I could always tell she was writing.\u00a0 If she called me, I could always tell she was reading from the talking points that she had mapped out on her yellow pad.\u00a0 When we cleaned out her apartment last year to move her to the nursing home, there were a ton of yellow pads of all shapes and sizes that were retired.<\/li>\n<li>Grandma wasn&#8217;t really an environmentalist.\u00a0 She used plastic bags to wrap everything.\u00a0 In order to open a box of her cereal, you first had to untie the three Target bags she had tied around it.\u00a0 She kept massive piles of Cleaners bags in her closet&#8230;to the point where I often wondered if she was planning to open a cleaners of her own one day.\u00a0 She also was notorious for washing out ziplocs to reuse them again.\u00a0 That was definitely a carryover from the Great Depression.\u00a0 If plastic bags weren&#8217;t handy, she was also comfortable wrapping things in Kleenex&#8230;like her jewelry, or her hair while she slept.<\/li>\n<li>The past few years, my sister and her husband have hosted Christmas for our family.\u00a0 They are two of the most generous people I know and always go to great lengths to make sure everyone was having a good time.\u00a0 You could tell that Grandma always felt like a celebrity coming over to Katie and JD&#8217;s house.\u00a0 They treated her like a queen.<\/li>\n<li>I will also remember that Grandma had trouble deciphering when it was most appropriate to whisper.\u00a0 She would often whisper when it was just you and her on the phone&#8230;leading you to wonder who might be listening in.\u00a0 However, she would never whisper when she was asking something inappropriate in public.\u00a0 Fortunately, most people would excuse her due to her age.<\/li>\n<li>A few years ago, Mom brought Grandma to Georgia for Thanksgiving so Grandma could see our new house.\u00a0 We had the best time with her down here.\u00a0 She even got to go to a NCCS basketball game.\u00a0 She loved basketball and enjoyed the fact that I was the announcer.\u00a0 I was definitely proud to have her at the game!\u00a0 Grandma and Clint always enjoyed sitting and talking about all sorts of things and that was one of my favorite memories from that Thanksgiving.\u00a0 Physically, that visit was rough for her, but we were so glad she came.\u00a0 She came because she was so excited for Clint and me to have purchased our first home together.\u00a0 Every time I&#8217;d talk to her after that, she&#8217;d always ask about our home and North Cobb Christian School.<\/li>\n<li>The Commercial Appeal has lost a bit of its luster for me as the main newspaper in the Memphis area.\u00a0 There usually isn&#8217;t anything too cheery in there, but Grandma might have been the most faithful reader of the CA.\u00a0 She was always cutting out articles to share with anyone who would look at them.\u00a0 The first few years I lived in Atlanta, she would always cut out the articles that mentioned Atlanta and mail them to me.\u00a0 That let me know she was thinking of me and I&#8217;ll really miss that!<\/li>\n<li>Grandma was a pretty small lady as far as stature was concerned.\u00a0 In her later years, she seemed to get even more compact.\u00a0 One night, we all took pizza over to her apartment to hang out.\u00a0 She had the freezer door open and was bringing glasses of ice out to the living room for everyone&#8217;s soda.\u00a0 Due to her shortened stature, she walked right under the freezer door while it was still open&#8230;without even having to bend down.\u00a0 The best part?\u00a0 All of us trying to keep our composure after witnessing such a remarkable feat.\u00a0 Grandma didn&#8217;t seem to notice, but we haven&#8217;t seemed to be able to forget!<\/li>\n<li>St. Louis Catholic Church played a pretty vital role in Grandma&#8217;s lift as a place that she went to feel close to the Lord.\u00a0 As a devout Catholic, Grandma attended mass up until she just couldn&#8217;t go anymore.\u00a0 Rather than sitting at home lamenting her loss of freedom, Grandma started reading the Bible for herself.\u00a0 In the last few years, we had some great conversations about the Book of Acts in particular.\u00a0 She was very intrigued by the history of the church.\u00a0 St. Louis was a huge blessing to our family as they brought Grandma communion faithfully on a regular basis until she passed away.\u00a0 God definitely used St. Louis to help Grandma grow closer to Him.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m sorry that I never met Grandma&#8217;s brother Justin.\u00a0 He passed away at a young age.\u00a0 But, it was always such a treat to hear Grandma talk about what a great uncle Justin was to my mom.\u00a0 My mom talks about Justin in just the same way sharing tons of fun adventures and thoughtful memories.\u00a0 I know that Grandma often saw her brother Justin in my brother Kevin and was so grateful for what an incredible young man my brother has become.<\/li>\n<li>My Grandpa died on Christmas Even when I was 12.\u00a0 That pretty much shattered my Grandma&#8217;s world as she relied on him for everything.\u00a0 They had been married for 46 years and did everything together.\u00a0 They were the best grandparents this kid could have ever asked for.\u00a0 Even during some tough times for our family, they were always there for us.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll particularly always treasure the evenings they spent with the 3 of us while my mom went back to school to get her paralegal degree.\u00a0 Grandma would always show up with pot roast and mashed potatoes.\u00a0 Grandpa would play with us until we were exhausted from laughing.\u00a0 They both always seemed to have enough time for all three of us.<\/li>\n<li>After Grandpa passed away, Grandma was pretty lonely for someone to do things with.\u00a0 She reunited with Tommy&#8230;a friend from she and Grandpa&#8217;s past whose wife had passed away.\u00a0 Tommy was a big part of our family for several years during our high school and college days.\u00a0 Grandma and Tommy were hilarious together travelling to Florida with friends, coming to graduations and ballgames, and making the trek to Atlanta for my wedding.\u00a0 Grandma and Tommy went to great lengths to support all of us in our endeavors.\u00a0 I&#8217;m so grateful for Tommy&#8217;s friendship to Grandma.\u00a0 They were both terrible drivers, but they sure had fun together!\u00a0 When Tommy passed away a few years ago, I know Grandma missed him too.<\/li>\n<li>My Grandma was fiercely proud of her family.\u00a0 As a kid, I remember that she and Grandpa would take us out to eat for special occasions.\u00a0 She would always embarrass us by calling the manager over to meet her family.\u00a0 That seems pretty special&#8230;she didn&#8217;t know the manager, she was just proud of her family and wanted to show us off.\u00a0 Anytime that anyone of us spoke to her, she always wanted to know what everyone else was up to as well.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I am grateful for the life of my Grandma.\u00a0 She was my last living grandparent and the end of a chapter in my life.\u00a0 She was a beautiful lady and her smile lit up a room.\u00a0 I&#8217;m so grateful that she is now reunited in heaven with those that went on before her.\u00a0 I smile when I think of what it will be like to see her again one day.\u00a0 Love you Grandma!<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-4193 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?attachment_id=4194'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/110-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?attachment_id=4195'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/210-150x150.jpg\" 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