Leonardo said:

My sympathies, Sluggo. At least you can say you knew him, right? I was 7 when my oldest grampa (he would've been 98 this year) passed away and I don't remember him at all. Only a passing memory of sitting on his knees. I have a lot of stuff he has written over the years, though, mostly poetry.

I know how that is, my oldest grandfather passed when I was 4. All I have is pictures of him holding me and stories from my father and grandmother. My other grandfather, died in July of '09. Like Leonardo's, you could say he was a man of few words. My Grandmother on my mother's side passed in Oct 2000. My Grandmother on my father's side passed away in Feb 2001, exactly on her birthday.