104 Years Ago

One-hundred and four years ago my grandpa was born. Only a few months ago he left this earth to join Jesus and many of his family and friends in heaven. It is good to remember his life even when we can no longer celebrate his birthday with him.



At age 95, Grandpa still enjoyed rowing on the lake while his youngest son rode along.



Grandpa grew up farming with horses but kept up with the times and was still driving huge tractors into his 80s (or maybe his 90s?) to help his three sons who carried on the calling to farm.



At age 27 he married his longtime sweetheart. Since they shared the same birthday (three years apart) we had the fun of a double-birthday party every year.



They raised 5 amazing children (the youngest, who was not born at this point, is in the first photo). My mom is the girl in Grandma's arms.

I am so thankful for this family!