Getting to know her

Staying with my paternal Grandma for the last week has been a huge blessing for me. I am lucky to have the opportunity to get to know her more as a person and as a friend. She is quite amazing. She was a widow at the age of 33 with 5 kids, the youngest being 2 years old when her husband (my grandpa) died of a heart attack at the age of 36. I was overwhelmed with sadness as I read his Obituaries from the newspapers and that he left behind so many small children. My dad was 13 when he lost his Father. Evan Hone was a Police Officer for Provo City (Utah) at the time, he looked so healthy, so alive. I don't know much about my Grandpa Hone, but I know he was a good Father and I know he loved .......and he was loved. I have not met him in this life but I do feel his presence around me sometimes. I can even recall one time that I felt him in my hospital room as I was recovering from an unexpected surgery. Actually, I felt him so close, I sent my husband home to sleep since I knew I was not alone. I learned that I get that (my spirituality) from my Grandma. She told me a story about how she knew something was going to happen months before Evan died.....you will have to ask her details, but I can say that I have felt and experienced similar things in my life. I told her that I have never been shocked, not in any of my trials and not in any of my huge blessings and there have been plenty of BOTH in my life. I have an inept ability to feel something coming, good or bad. She told me she has always known that about me and yet this is the first we have ever spoke about it. I am grateful for the chance to get to know these small details about her. I love that something that is unique to me, I share with my Grandma.