As a young girl, my grandpa was probably the most important man in my life. Every day when I came home from school, he would have the cards dealt out, for Canasta and he would say, "Come on, I've been waiting for you to beat me." In later years, I realized he usually let me win. Every night he and I walked up to Dolly Madison Ice Cream store, at 6th & Knox Ct and would bring ice cream back for everybody. Grandpa got a blood clot in his leg and his leg was amputated just below the knee and he had a "wooden" leg. He also got Colon Cancer and if he was alive today, I feel he could have been saved. My Mom used to say, "his Dr. butchered him" with the colonoscopy. He had 7 surgeries and each one took it's toll worse than the last. The years my grandpa was alive were the happiest years of my childhood and when he moved to heaven, it was my most traumatic memory. He married Mary Ellen Jackson d/o George Washington Jackson and Livonia Deborah (White) Jackson. Edgar and Mary had 5 children, with 3 living to adulthood. They were: Gertrude V (d: 1 yr,) Eugene (no middle name or initial,) George Edgar, Emma May & "Baby Girl" Stevens.
As a young girl, my grandpa was probably the most important man in my life. Every day when I came home from school, he would have the cards dealt out, for Canasta and he would say, "Come on, I've been waiting for you to beat me." In later years, I realized he usually let me win. Every night he and I walked up to Dolly Madison Ice Cream store, at 6th & Knox Ct and would bring ice cream back for everybody. Grandpa got a blood clot in his leg and his leg was amputated just below the knee and he had a "wooden" leg. He also got Colon Cancer and if he was alive today, I feel he could have been saved. My Mom used to say, "his Dr. butchered him" with the colonoscopy. He had 7 surgeries and each one took it's toll worse than the last. The years my grandpa was alive were the happiest years of my childhood and when he moved to heaven, it was my most traumatic memory. He married Mary Ellen Jackson d/o George Washington Jackson and Livonia Deborah (White) Jackson. Edgar and Mary had 5 children, with 3 living to adulthood. They were: Gertrude V (d: 1 yr,) Eugene (no middle name or initial,) George Edgar, Emma May & "Baby Girl" Stevens.
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