
And poor Fred, struck down on the twelfth hole at the Half -Moon Hollow public golf course. His doctor’s article on the improbability of such a bite was published in several medical journals. Grandpa Jimmy died from a brown recluse bite on the inside of the throat. Grandpa Tom had a heretofore-unknown allergy to rhubarb and had an anaphylactic reaction while Grandma was baking her famous strawberry-rhubarb pie. A milk truck hit Grandpa John, my real grandpa, back in the days when milk was actually delivered door-to-door. Shame about the lightning strike.Īll of Grandma Ruthie’s husbands had died under weird circumstances. Mama put a stop to that after Grandpa Number Four, Fred.
