(Originally posted on Facebook February 4, 2026)
I’m going to share my oldest funeral program and an obituary.
The funeral program is of my maternal grandfather. He died when I was about 9 or 10. My earliest experience with death.
He was very special to me and he set the bar for how a man should care for his wife and family.
His impact is still felt to this day. Vince always tease me because I talk about my grandfather like he’s still here.
The obituary is of my paternal grandmother. Her name was Minnie Eva Jackson Scott. She died before I was even thought of. My father was 12 years old when she died.
Over the years, I have been able to reconstruct her family tree with research and most recently through DNA matches that verified the paper research. I have gone back to her great great grandmother who, according to the 1870 US Census, was born in Africa.
