End of an Era

We bid Good Bye to our beloved Grandmother last Monday :(

She may not be a great personality but she was a brave and bold woman. She might ve born with curses i think. She suffered a lot in her life time. I wonder whether she had lived life for herself ever. Lost her mother when she was around 5 i think. Then her father remarried. Her step mother was not good. The only good thing she did was given a younger brother to her (my dad). She lost her father also when she was around 9. They all became orphans. She was with her grandparents and doing errands at their home didnt get much education. Got married at around 16.

That must be her happy days in life I think. She had given birth to 10 children. My mother is the eldest. She had managed to maintain that huge family with the small income of my grandfather. She was having cows at home to raise fund for the family. Imagine to run a family with ten children and a mother in law. They managed to buy 2 houses and a site with that income.

She had a married life may be for 20 years. There was a sudden death of my grandfather in an accident. That time only my mother and one aunt got married. Uncles and aunts were studying. Nobody was settled. Uncle got the job of my grandpa but that money was very little to run the family.

She managed to get two of her daughters and two sons married. She started constructing a house on the site also. Then one by one she got all her daughters married. She managed to run the family with the rent and with the help of cows.

She suffered a lot in the last three months both with cardiac and renal failure. So much of pain. She had good timing sense. Even when she was in the hospital she used to crack joke according to the situation. Aunts those were with her, would be gloomy for sometime and burst out into laughter at her jokes. The staff of the hospital were wondering were they mad. Even just two days before her death, one of my aunts asked her to try to stand on her own, for that she had answered that even she wanted to run and dance but her body was not cooperating with her.

Till her last moment she didnt expect money from anybody. Even for her last journey, she had asked my uncle to take care of it and given money to him.

Imagine getting married 5 daugters and taking care of their deliveries, constructing a house. Struggled all her life time as a single lady without much education. Isn't she great?

I pray for her soul to rest in peace.

Good Bye Grandma :`(