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Remembering Grampa V

A few memories of Grampa V:

- His hand made bike with all kinds of reflectors and gadgets and lambswool seat that he rode well into his 70's (and 80's?)

- His love of sweets (ice cream, flavored creamer that he drank like milk by itself)

- His love of numbers and how they correlate to the alphabet

- His "protein" bars (peanut butter rice kripie treats made with karo syrup instead of marshmellow)

- He always sat in the front row at church with a very loud "AAAA-MEN" easily heard anywhere in church

- The house he built WITHOUT nails (still not sure if this is an urban legend or if this is really true)!

- His TV was either on Mass with Father DiPerri, History channel, or Science channel

- He had some killer legs, even in his 80's - must've been all the biking he did

- He would bike into Boston to watch the fireworks at Charles River on the 4th of July

- His hair was always white as far as I can recall - could it have been from raising so many children?

- He called Nana "Franny" (which I thought was hysterical as a kid b/c I thought he was saying "Fanny")

RIP Grampa V.

Posted by Kerry
Monday February 9, 2015 at 2:30 pm
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