Gram remembered everyone’s birthdays and holidays with cards. Homemade bread and jam were standard gifts. Sometimes she’d have her bed covered with loaves ready to be wrapped for Christmas.

Remembering everyone was a job, since she had 6 surviving children, 22 grandchildren, 42 great grandchildren, and 6 great great-grandchildren, not to mention siblings, nieces, nephews, and her many "adopted" friends and their children.