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re: Things you find out from family later in life.
Posted on 8/23/26 at 2:07 pm to PJinAtl
Posted on 8/23/26 at 2:07 pm to PJinAtl
We spent a lot of time with my wife's aunt and uncle in South Alabama. Good people who had no kids of their own. The uncle was a very nice man who had worked in a textile mill while his wife owned a beauty parlor.
I always thought it was odd that this man who had grown up in Alabama and lived there his entire life, other than when he went camping with Patton, cared nothing about football. In fact, if anyone started talking about the Iron Bowl at Thanksgiving, be would walk away.
When he passed, we took the aunt with us to her sister's (my MiL) for Christmas. That year, my wife gave me the biography of Shug Jordan. When the aunt asked me what I was reading, I held up the book. She said, "Oh, that's about (uncle's) friend." While he certainly knew that we were Auburn fans, as was most of the extended family, he never once mentioned that he was a childhood friend of Shug's and their friendship lasted throughout their lives.
Shug would stop at their house when he came through on recruiting trips and to speak at local clubs. There was even a picture in the book of a sports camp that Shug had organzied as a young boy and the uncle was in the picture.
I was told that he watched or listened to every game Shug coached, but when he retired, that was if for any kind of football.
I always thought it was odd that this man who had grown up in Alabama and lived there his entire life, other than when he went camping with Patton, cared nothing about football. In fact, if anyone started talking about the Iron Bowl at Thanksgiving, be would walk away.
When he passed, we took the aunt with us to her sister's (my MiL) for Christmas. That year, my wife gave me the biography of Shug Jordan. When the aunt asked me what I was reading, I held up the book. She said, "Oh, that's about (uncle's) friend." While he certainly knew that we were Auburn fans, as was most of the extended family, he never once mentioned that he was a childhood friend of Shug's and their friendship lasted throughout their lives.
Shug would stop at their house when he came through on recruiting trips and to speak at local clubs. There was even a picture in the book of a sports camp that Shug had organzied as a young boy and the uncle was in the picture.
I was told that he watched or listened to every game Shug coached, but when he retired, that was if for any kind of football.
This post was edited on 8/23/26 at 2:10 pm
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Posted on 8/23/26 at 2:14 pm to LSUDVM1999
I dated a girl in Atlanta a few years ago. She grew up living in Tehran til she was about 8 years old. Her dad worked for some kind of US agency like the US Embassy or CIA or some other clandestine org. They lived in a gated compound for US personnel. When the revolution went down they had to leave with a few hours notice. Loaded what they could into a bullet-proof vehicle and got a flight out on a US military aircraft. I met her dad but didn’t really get into the particulars. Cool dude, though.
Posted on 8/23/26 at 2:38 pm to LSUDVM1999
Not my family but my wife’s (no pics).
Her maternal grandparents were of Swabian German heritage and immigrated from Yugoslavia to Australia in 1947. They never talked about the war, what happened in the old country, the family that was left behind, or even spoke their native language. If the topic was brought up, it was shut down. They passed away in the late 90’s. About ten years ago, one of their sons travelled over to Europe and researched the family. It turns out that my wife’s (again, no pics) great-grandfather was an SS officer and was executed near the end of the war by Tito’s Communist partisans for war crimes. The rest of the family were locked up in prison camps until late 1946 when they were released and sent to Austria. From there, the Red Cross helped them get to Australia.
I kind of tease my wife (still no pics) about it. I’ll ask her “My great-grandfather was a farmer. What did yours do? “ from time to time.
Her maternal grandparents were of Swabian German heritage and immigrated from Yugoslavia to Australia in 1947. They never talked about the war, what happened in the old country, the family that was left behind, or even spoke their native language. If the topic was brought up, it was shut down. They passed away in the late 90’s. About ten years ago, one of their sons travelled over to Europe and researched the family. It turns out that my wife’s (again, no pics) great-grandfather was an SS officer and was executed near the end of the war by Tito’s Communist partisans for war crimes. The rest of the family were locked up in prison camps until late 1946 when they were released and sent to Austria. From there, the Red Cross helped them get to Australia.
I kind of tease my wife (still no pics) about it. I’ll ask her “My great-grandfather was a farmer. What did yours do? “ from time to time.
Posted on 8/23/26 at 2:42 pm to cypresstiger
Did he still have to go through the various complications of divorce, such as paying $10,000+ to a divorce lawyer?
Interesting how all that could have been avoided if there had just figured out they weren’t made for each other a week earlier.
Interesting how all that could have been avoided if there had just figured out they weren’t made for each other a week earlier.
Posted on 8/23/26 at 2:42 pm to LSUDVM1999
Apparently my mom kicked my dad out of the house and he took a job a couple states over. Ended up convincing her to take him back and she moved in with him in the town I was born in shortly after
One could say I saved the family
One could say I saved the family
Posted on 8/23/26 at 3:14 pm to UFFan
Interesting how all that could have been avoided if there had just figured out they weren’t made for each other a week earlier.
—-they married for the “fun” of it, part of it was on a dare by friends. They both knew neither was really ready. In those days you could get a quick annulment.
—-they married for the “fun” of it, part of it was on a dare by friends. They both knew neither was really ready. In those days you could get a quick annulment.
This post was edited on 8/23/26 at 3:15 pm
Posted on 8/23/26 at 3:41 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
Yeah, I'm not really feeling the nostalgia of people dying from common bacterial infections and preventable diseases that we now have vaccines for.
Posted on 8/23/26 at 3:58 pm to LSUDVM1999
My mother, who is 94 now, got really into genealogy about 25 years ago.
Her father was 20+ years older than her mother. This we knew.
She says that she never met any members of her father's family while she was growing up except one of his brothers stopped by for a visit once, and it lasted only 15 minutes.
Come to find out through her genealogical research, her father had been married previously, and she had some older half siblings who had already all passed away.
She also found out that her father never divorced his first wife. Her parents (my grandparents) were never legally married although they passed themselves off as husband and wife for all the years that they lived together.
Her father was 20+ years older than her mother. This we knew.
She says that she never met any members of her father's family while she was growing up except one of his brothers stopped by for a visit once, and it lasted only 15 minutes.
Come to find out through her genealogical research, her father had been married previously, and she had some older half siblings who had already all passed away.
She also found out that her father never divorced his first wife. Her parents (my grandparents) were never legally married although they passed themselves off as husband and wife for all the years that they lived together.
Posted on 8/23/26 at 3:59 pm to LSUDVM1999
I took me a long time to understand why my cousin was in attendance as a baby at my Aunt and Uncle's wedding and why it took place at another Aunt's house and not in the church. My uncle adopted him, but over 59 years later they still don't talk about. My Mom won't even admit it.
Posted on 8/23/26 at 4:07 pm to Stinger_1066
This is like some of the stories of lost parents/siblings on 'Unsolved Mysteries' with Robert Stack.
Posted on 8/23/26 at 4:12 pm to TheFonz
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Not my family but my wife’s (no pics).
Her maternal grandparents were of Swabian German heritage and immigrated from Yugoslavia to Australia in 1947. They never talked about the war, what happened in the old country, the family that was left behind, or even spoke their native language. If the topic was brought up, it was shut down. They passed away in the late 90’s. About ten years ago, one of their sons travelled over to Europe and researched the family. It turns out that my wife’s (again, no pics) great-grandfather was an SS officer and was executed near the end of the war by Tito’s Communist partisans for war crimes. The rest of the family were locked up in prison camps until late 1946 when they were released and sent to Austria. From there, the Red Cross helped them get to Australia.
I kind of tease my wife (still no pics) about it. I’ll ask her “My great-grandfather was a farmer. What did yours do? “ from time to time.
My stepdaugher's grandmother on her biological father's side came to the US as a refugee from Poland sometime during or after WWII. My stepdaughter has never been told the real truth, but speculation is that her biological father is the son of a Nazi who raped his mother.
Posted on 8/23/26 at 4:18 pm to tiger94gop
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I took me a long time to understand why my cousin was in attendance as a baby at my Aunt and Uncle's wedding and why it took place at another Aunt's house and not in the church. My uncle adopted him, but over 59 years later they still don't talk about. My Mom won't even admit it.
Divorce and children born out of wedlock is difficult for people over 80 to talk about. They were guilt tripped by their churches to believe it was shameful and should not be discussed.
My mother-in-law, who is 87, got divorced from her first husband before she was 30 (he was fooling around with a student), but she refused to remarry before he did because she thought it was a sin to do so otherwise.
This post was edited on 8/23/26 at 4:22 pm
Posted on 8/23/26 at 4:22 pm to Tree_Fall
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Possibly connected. Shah and family were big hunters and interacted a lot with high-level Masons and Rotary (rich and influential). Mississippi-born Barry B. Brooks and wife Virgina F. Walton Brooks had some ties through those routes. He was a big Memphis cotton man ~ 1940 -1970 . I can't recall where the Ak connection was, maybe Pine Bluff. They kept a scrapbook full of pictures of Pahlavi family, I always thought it was odd.
My grandfather was a doctor and owned several blood plasma donation centers then, I know they had traveled to Pakistan to look into doing business there. There was actually a big scandal with those centers, they were buying plasma from prisons that came from inmates and this was about the time AIDs became a thing. They didn’t know at the time aids was transferred mostly through gay sex, and so a lot of that inmate blood unknowingly ended up tainted with HIV. The blood caused thousands of people to be infected with aids. Governor Bill Clinton covered it up and squashed the investigations, the centers were all shut down. There was a movie called Factor 8 about it.
My grandmothers father was founder and CEO of Riceland Foods in Stuttgart and a huge duck hunter and a high level Freemason so what you said tracks. That’s probably where the connection to the Shah came from
Posted on 8/23/26 at 4:22 pm to PGAOLDBAWNevahBroke
Found out that my dad's grandfather fought for the Union, and then later fought for the Confederacy. According to cousins, this has been fully verfied, if not fully explained.
I'm guessing the Union army released or furloghed him at some point, he went home to north Alabama, and Confederates conscripted him for their army.
I'm guessing the Union army released or furloghed him at some point, he went home to north Alabama, and Confederates conscripted him for their army.
Posted on 8/23/26 at 4:34 pm to LSUDVM1999
My Grandparents had a restaurant in New Orleans. There was always gambling slot machine, pinball, and card games upstairs. They were Italian…..I didn’t realize who the “Uncle” was, that would give me money, to put in the machines was actually the person that owned them…illegally of course.
I learned some growing up. I wish some of those family members were alive so that could know more without trying to piece things together.
I learned some growing up. I wish some of those family members were alive so that could know more without trying to piece things together.
Posted on 8/23/26 at 5:08 pm to LSUDVM1999
When my grandmother passed we found a box of papers. My grandfather was on a carrier in WWII. Word came back to my grandmother that it was struck, sank and no survivors.
She took my dad to an orphanage to be adopted because she had to go to work and didn’t feel she could raise him as a single woman.
She found out a few months later my grandfather was alive and rushed back to the orphanage to get my dad.
She took my dad to an orphanage to be adopted because she had to go to work and didn’t feel she could raise him as a single woman.
She found out a few months later my grandfather was alive and rushed back to the orphanage to get my dad.
Posted on 8/23/26 at 5:15 pm to LSUDVM1999
My grandfather died before I was born. I was an adult when I found out it was suicide.
Posted on 8/23/26 at 5:24 pm to Pvt Hudson
My Mom’s stepmom was a relative of Clyde Barrow (niece or cousin can’t remember) and said he visited their house on more than one occasion. She was young but assumed he was on the run and hiding out. She didn’t tell my mom this till I was an adult.
My uncle married a Latina chick in San Diego and had a daughter. He travelled the West Coast a lot for his job and apparently knocked up this chick in Seattle. Nobody knew this forever. After his death (car crash) his daughter in San Diego did the 23 and me stuff and got a hit of a half sibling in Washington state. She contacted him and they all came down to my mom’s house here in Louisiana. When I got out of my vehicle to meet him I was shocked. He was the spitting image of my maternal grandfather. No denying that dude as a relative.
My uncle married a Latina chick in San Diego and had a daughter. He travelled the West Coast a lot for his job and apparently knocked up this chick in Seattle. Nobody knew this forever. After his death (car crash) his daughter in San Diego did the 23 and me stuff and got a hit of a half sibling in Washington state. She contacted him and they all came down to my mom’s house here in Louisiana. When I got out of my vehicle to meet him I was shocked. He was the spitting image of my maternal grandfather. No denying that dude as a relative.
Posted on 8/23/26 at 5:26 pm to LSUDVM1999
I discovered through an obituary my great uncle and grandpa (dad's dad) were driving and accidently killed some guy who was walking home in the dark at like 5 o'clock when it gets dark early in the dead of winter. He was a semi-recent widower with six kids.
According to my cousin, our grandma (mom's mom) had an abortion as an unmarried widow. It seemed completely unbelievable to the woman I knew, but it would explain the sudden move she made when my mom was starting 9th grade and my aunt had already graduated.
According to my cousin, our grandma (mom's mom) had an abortion as an unmarried widow. It seemed completely unbelievable to the woman I knew, but it would explain the sudden move she made when my mom was starting 9th grade and my aunt had already graduated.
Posted on 8/23/26 at 5:27 pm to LSUDVM1999
Adopted.
Only thing I know is my birth parents were 16 in Shreveport area.
Had to be some methed up teenagers.
Only thing I know is my birth parents were 16 in Shreveport area.
Had to be some methed up teenagers.
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