So, I just got a call from ( Read more... )

We're back in Peoria after heading up to Oak Lawn for Grandpa Elia's funeral. It was odd realizing how much about my grandfather he had never told me -- how much I never knew. hearing my grandpa's last name repeatedly butchered ("Ee-lee-uh"?! Erm, no) was annoying as hell, and it amazed me more that this was by someone who'd apparently known him ( Read more... )

My grandfather passed away some time last night -- I found this out at work. Grandpa Elia had been suffering Parkinson's for a number of years now, and the effect that it had on him as time went on was tragic. Apparently some time wheen I started work he was hopsitalized for pneumonia, and things went downhill from there, apaprently getting a ( Read more... )