Nancy's Memoirs 4

 

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My mother's mother, Matilda Kruger was a gentle kindly woman.  I knew her well.  Her voice
was very quiet and she always walked very slowly in later years.  She was known to be a frail
sort of woman but had 10 children and lived to be 82 or 83 years old.  She would never stay
on her own.  She had her hair permed regularly when she was old and wore it short.  She
wore spectacles only for reading.  My Mother taught her to knit when she was about 80
years old but she didn't do any increases or decreases in the jumper she knitted herself.  
Mum had to help her with that.

Grandma wore a size 5 shoe, now known as 7.  My Mother made nearly all her dresses
which always had to have a 3/4 length sleeve.  She usually wore a long white apron around
the kitchen but never got it or anything else dirty.  She suffered from depression which she
described as "feeling ugly".

She died in Kilcoy hospital after a week of heart trouble.  My Mother and I were with her, and
Ossie's wife Eileen.

My Grandfather died of haemorrhage of the bowel in Royal Brisbane Hospital aged 87.  He
also suffered "hardening of the arteries" but generally enjoyed excellent health - Albert
Henry Kruger.

My Grandmother had her appendix removed, Kilcoy Hospital when she was 75 years old.  
She was very ill and her health was not very good from then on.