It's been a week now....
This week…
As I sit here, it’s hard for me to believe that it’s been a week. With how well I’ve been able to sleep, this week has seemed a month. A week ago today I got the phone call, the call that would make me jump up and answer my sisters’ phone call, and slightly flinch when I missed her call and had a voice mail. It was the call I’d been preparing for, for the last two months.
My Grandmother passed.
For those of you who don’t know, my maternal Grandparents adopted me, thus becoming Dad and Mom to me.
Dad passed on in 1995, rest his soul.
While I was growing up, Mom and I butted heads a lot, and I mean a lot. Mom was raised during the Great Depression, and I wasn’t going to accept anything except something resembling a ’normal’ modern upbringing.
I will admit that I hated her with a flaming passion for most of my life, BUT I loved her just as equally. I am grateful for every moment, ugly, bad, good, and wonderful.
She saw a lot of life and great historical events.
I’ve spent the last week trying to wrap my mind around the fact that she’s gone. Over the last few years of her life I didn’t spend much time around her, it was difficult for me. The Alzheimer’s made her commonly think I was my birth mom. I will never be able to thank my sister Jodie enough for being there for her, for taking care of her, for being a strength where I was a weakness.
The full point in me writing this, is to help my mind come to terms. If you took the brief moment to read this, thanks.
One request if you are thinking of commenting… please don’t say sorry, etc. She lived a good long life, and is in a much better place now.
Gloria Allison
Staff Writer
Article Launched: 03/11/2008 04:20:36 PM PDT
Gloria M. Allison, a longtime resident of the Redlands and Yucaipa area, died March 7 in Redlands from complications of Alzheimer’s disease. She was 79.
She was born Jan. 21, 1929, in Gillespie, Ill., to Bertha Stiffler and Edward Gibbons, who were born in Pennsylvania.
She was a graduate of Blackburn College in Carlinville, Ill., and a retired revenue agent for the Department of Treasury.
Her late husband was retired Sgt. George Allison of the California Highway Patrol.
She had lived in Redlands, Mentone, Calimesa and Yucaipa since 1964.
She was a member of Holy Name of Jesus Parish, formerly Sacred Heart Church, in Redlands.
Survivors include her five children, George Allison of Redlands, Kathy Klep of North Carolina and Kevin Allison, Jodie Lewis and Cassandra Allison of Yucaipa; four grandchildren and five step-grandchildren.
http://www.redlandsdailyfacts.com/ci_8533391
As I sit here, it’s hard for me to believe that it’s been a week. With how well I’ve been able to sleep, this week has seemed a month. A week ago today I got the phone call, the call that would make me jump up and answer my sisters’ phone call, and slightly flinch when I missed her call and had a voice mail. It was the call I’d been preparing for, for the last two months.
My Grandmother passed.
For those of you who don’t know, my maternal Grandparents adopted me, thus becoming Dad and Mom to me.
Dad passed on in 1995, rest his soul.
While I was growing up, Mom and I butted heads a lot, and I mean a lot. Mom was raised during the Great Depression, and I wasn’t going to accept anything except something resembling a ’normal’ modern upbringing.
I will admit that I hated her with a flaming passion for most of my life, BUT I loved her just as equally. I am grateful for every moment, ugly, bad, good, and wonderful.
She saw a lot of life and great historical events.
I’ve spent the last week trying to wrap my mind around the fact that she’s gone. Over the last few years of her life I didn’t spend much time around her, it was difficult for me. The Alzheimer’s made her commonly think I was my birth mom. I will never be able to thank my sister Jodie enough for being there for her, for taking care of her, for being a strength where I was a weakness.
The full point in me writing this, is to help my mind come to terms. If you took the brief moment to read this, thanks.
One request if you are thinking of commenting… please don’t say sorry, etc. She lived a good long life, and is in a much better place now.
Gloria Allison
Staff Writer
Article Launched: 03/11/2008 04:20:36 PM PDT
Gloria M. Allison, a longtime resident of the Redlands and Yucaipa area, died March 7 in Redlands from complications of Alzheimer’s disease. She was 79.
She was born Jan. 21, 1929, in Gillespie, Ill., to Bertha Stiffler and Edward Gibbons, who were born in Pennsylvania.
She was a graduate of Blackburn College in Carlinville, Ill., and a retired revenue agent for the Department of Treasury.
Her late husband was retired Sgt. George Allison of the California Highway Patrol.
She had lived in Redlands, Mentone, Calimesa and Yucaipa since 1964.
She was a member of Holy Name of Jesus Parish, formerly Sacred Heart Church, in Redlands.
Survivors include her five children, George Allison of Redlands, Kathy Klep of North Carolina and Kevin Allison, Jodie Lewis and Cassandra Allison of Yucaipa; four grandchildren and five step-grandchildren.
http://www.redlandsdailyfacts.com/ci_8533391