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With the exception of pictures taken at my brother's wedding 4 months later, this was one of the last pictures of my maternal grandmother, Ella Pearson Overstreet (1921-2008), alive, taken by my friends Matthew and Angela Yehiel about 3 months after Grandma was placed in Eden Pines Assisted Living at Hampton, VA. This was 6 months before she had to be upgraded to The Newport nursing home at Newport News, VA and 8 months before her death. I did not realize this that day, but this picture was taken 2 February 2008, on the 50th anniversary of the death of my last-living great2-grandmother, Lucy Cheek Overstreet (1861-1958), Grandma's grandmother-in-law. Behind Grandma is the retirement picture of my grandfather, Melvin "Ray" Overstreet (1920-1984). After visiting Grandma that day, we went to a nearby nursing home to visit my Grandma Godfrey, whose dementia had already been advanced for a year and a half, and ironically I figured she would be the one not to last much longer instead of Grandma O, yet a year and a half later, she is still alive at 89.
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