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Which Grandma was a master of Chinese checkers?
Grandma Nina!
(Nina Gardner Steele)
Which grandparents lived through the Great Depression?
All of the great grandparents
(Stan and Ardith, Ernie and Nina, Meriner and Flora, Olive and Garth)
Which Grandma played the violin?
Grandma Merrell!
Who was the Frito delivery person for all of the Graham and Greenlee counties as well as Globe for a time?
Grandad Merrell
Meriner Merrell
Who used to play the drums for community dances?
Grandma Nina!
Who used to be a deputy sheriff?
Papa!
(Garth Lunt)
Who had a hip bone disease that led to 6 weeks of bedrest during 1st grade?
Grandad! (David Udall)
This led to his mastery of chess and love of reading!
Who first cooked the tasty red enchiladas that we now serve each Christmas Eve?
Grandma Merrill (Flora Fay)
At what age did Grandma K learn to recite all the major triads? How many seconds did it take her to recite them?
Age 18.
17 Seconds!
Which Grandma was really good at running the hurdles on the track team in high school?
Grandma Merrell
(Flora Nelson Merrell)
Who played the piano or organ in the dark while waiting for her teenager kids to come home?
Grandma Merrell
Which two family members served in World War II?
Which grandparent started a cookbook that is still used by the Lunt family today?
Kathleen Hardy
Which grandparent sang a solo in the Sacred Grove?
Grandma Judy!
Which grandparent was hit by a train and survived?
(Sarah Goodman)
Who switched sleeping babies between buggies in the nursery at a church dance?
Karl Gaius Udall
Which grandma fell out of a buggy and cracked open her skull and her eye popped out?
Lettie Almeda Stowell
She survived with a full recovery.
Which grandparent was a high school principal in Artesia?
Sadie Nelson
(Sarah Goodman)
Which Grandma could beat all the boys at leg wrestling when she was in college?
Grandma Judy!
Which two Grandmas could play any song on the piano by ear?
Helene Gardner and Kathleen Hardy
Which aunt started the tradition of storing grocery sacks in a milk jug with a whole cut in the side?
Aunt Ann (married to Uncle Guy, Grandma Brenda's Brother)
Who started the family saying, "Ain't that cheap?"
Ralph Harvey Gardner
Which grandparent spoke as valedictorian at middle school graduation, went on to be an excellent public speaker, and president of several organizations?
Sadie Nelson
(Sarah Goodman)
Who could run as fast or faster than the boys on the high school football team her sons played on?
Lettie Almeda Stowell
Who was able to shoot a penny off a fence post from a distance?
Nana (Olive Lunt)