Happy 100th Birthday Grandma Bryan!!!!!
Laura's Grandma Bryan just turned 100 Years Old today, July 6th!!!! She's a wonderful lady who sacrifices much of her finances for the cause of Missions as well as is one of our faithful Prayer Warriors! We want you around for many more years, Grandma for we need your prayers daily!!!! Congratulations and thank you for your Godly life and daily prayers!
My Tall Grandma
Ruth Evelyn Colwell Bryan was born on July 6, 1907, near Rutland Ohio. She had ???? sisters and one brother. She was the youngest of all the girls.
Grandma’s family lived two miles from the one-room schoolhouse where they attended. When it snowed her father would bring a sleigh, and the neighbor kids would ride with them to school. On Saturdays, they usually cleaned the school house.
Great-Grandma did not have the kind of pet that you would think. Instead of a cat or a dog, she had a pet lamb named Nicodemus! She also had two pet chickens as pets. One of these chickens was scrawny. She named it Bruce after a skinny boy in her class.
Great-Grandma Bryan was her Daddy’s little shadow. She loved to be around him and learn things from him. When she would help him in the fields, he would plow with the tractor and let her trial behind with the seeds. When she would get too far behind eh would stop and wait for her. She also helped her mother with the household chores. Since they did not have vacuum cleaners back then, they used brooms. I found it interesting that they even swept their carpets with a broom. If the carpets got too dusty they would sprinkle water on them.
When Great-Grandma was a little girl she liked to play house with her rag dolls. Her best friend, Hilda, would sometimes come over and stay. While she was there they would play dolls, Hilda’s playhouse was more like a “real house” so Grandma preferred to go over there to play.
Great-Grandma cannot remember having crayons. They used flower called morning glories. When they were in the bud if you squeezed them just right they would squirt out the juice. They did not have coloring books, however there were black and while ladies fashion magazines that she would used as her coloring books. My Great Grandma’s creativity began a LONG time ago!
My Great-Grandma, Ruth Colwell married Clyde D. Bryan on May 10, 1927. She lost their 1st child through a miscarriage. Throughout the years of their marriage, God blessed their home with four children. Helen was their oldest daughter and then came Virginia. They had two sons Keith Roger and Edgar Andrew. Sadly, Keith was killed in an accident at the age of seventeen. Edgar A. Bryan their youngest son is my Gramp.
Though there were cars when Great-Grandma was a little girl, her family did not have one. They went everywhere in a horse and buggy. They did not get a car until she was older. She rode on a train after she got married, however she did not fly on an airplane until she was 96!
Great-Grandma Bryan does excellent needle work. I love to look at all the things she has made. She has made me many gifts that I cherish. Among these is an embroidered pillow case. When we were up there she taught me some embroidery stitches.
I enjoyed reading Great-Grandma’s autobiography that she wrote about her life. Last January I got to interview her when we were visiting them. She lives with my Gramp and Gram, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Bryan. Though Great Grandma Bryan went through many hard times, she still has remained very sweet.
When I was three years old, Great-Grandma had written us some letters with some stories in them from her childhood. Mommy read us some of these stories out of her letters for our bedtime story one night. She then told us that Grandma’s birthday was coming up and that she would be 93. Because I was growing taller every year, I thought everyone kept getting taller no matter how old they got. So I exclaimed to my Mommy, “Wow, She must be REALLY tall!” Ever since then, she has been “My Tall Grandma”.
I admire Great-Grandma Bryan because she is a wonderful Christian. She will be One Hundred years old this Saturday, July 6th and she is still living for Jesus. I love you, Great-Grandma Bryan, “My Tall Grandma!”
Note: Brittany wrote this as one of her writing assignments for this past school year! We All love and miss you Grandma and wish with all of our hearts that we could be there to help you celebrate. But God has asked us to be in Romania at this point and we will be with you in our thoughts and prayers!
Ruth Evelyn Colwell Bryan was born on July 6, 1907, near Rutland Ohio. She had ???? sisters and one brother. She was the youngest of all the girls.
Grandma’s family lived two miles from the one-room schoolhouse where they attended. When it snowed her father would bring a sleigh, and the neighbor kids would ride with them to school. On Saturdays, they usually cleaned the school house.
Great-Grandma did not have the kind of pet that you would think. Instead of a cat or a dog, she had a pet lamb named Nicodemus! She also had two pet chickens as pets. One of these chickens was scrawny. She named it Bruce after a skinny boy in her class.
Great-Grandma Bryan was her Daddy’s little shadow. She loved to be around him and learn things from him. When she would help him in the fields, he would plow with the tractor and let her trial behind with the seeds. When she would get too far behind eh would stop and wait for her. She also helped her mother with the household chores. Since they did not have vacuum cleaners back then, they used brooms. I found it interesting that they even swept their carpets with a broom. If the carpets got too dusty they would sprinkle water on them.
When Great-Grandma was a little girl she liked to play house with her rag dolls. Her best friend, Hilda, would sometimes come over and stay. While she was there they would play dolls, Hilda’s playhouse was more like a “real house” so Grandma preferred to go over there to play.
Great-Grandma cannot remember having crayons. They used flower called morning glories. When they were in the bud if you squeezed them just right they would squirt out the juice. They did not have coloring books, however there were black and while ladies fashion magazines that she would used as her coloring books. My Great Grandma’s creativity began a LONG time ago!
My Great-Grandma, Ruth Colwell married Clyde D. Bryan on May 10, 1927. She lost their 1st child through a miscarriage. Throughout the years of their marriage, God blessed their home with four children. Helen was their oldest daughter and then came Virginia. They had two sons Keith Roger and Edgar Andrew. Sadly, Keith was killed in an accident at the age of seventeen. Edgar A. Bryan their youngest son is my Gramp.
Though there were cars when Great-Grandma was a little girl, her family did not have one. They went everywhere in a horse and buggy. They did not get a car until she was older. She rode on a train after she got married, however she did not fly on an airplane until she was 96!
Great-Grandma Bryan does excellent needle work. I love to look at all the things she has made. She has made me many gifts that I cherish. Among these is an embroidered pillow case. When we were up there she taught me some embroidery stitches.
I enjoyed reading Great-Grandma’s autobiography that she wrote about her life. Last January I got to interview her when we were visiting them. She lives with my Gramp and Gram, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Bryan. Though Great Grandma Bryan went through many hard times, she still has remained very sweet.
When I was three years old, Great-Grandma had written us some letters with some stories in them from her childhood. Mommy read us some of these stories out of her letters for our bedtime story one night. She then told us that Grandma’s birthday was coming up and that she would be 93. Because I was growing taller every year, I thought everyone kept getting taller no matter how old they got. So I exclaimed to my Mommy, “Wow, She must be REALLY tall!” Ever since then, she has been “My Tall Grandma”.
I admire Great-Grandma Bryan because she is a wonderful Christian. She will be One Hundred years old this Saturday, July 6th and she is still living for Jesus. I love you, Great-Grandma Bryan, “My Tall Grandma!”
Note: Brittany wrote this as one of her writing assignments for this past school year! We All love and miss you Grandma and wish with all of our hearts that we could be there to help you celebrate. But God has asked us to be in Romania at this point and we will be with you in our thoughts and prayers!
4 comments:
Thank you, Brittany, for all your work in writing this; it was well done. But even more, I learned a lot of beautiful things about our "tall Grandma." We love you all. And much love to Grandma Bryan.
That is a wonderful "biography" of Grandma Bryan. Brittany, you did a really good job writing that. Happy Birthday Grandma!! Did you hear that Andrew got to go to Indiana to be with them? He was going to Bremen but we had to change the ticket at the last minute.
I enjoyed Brittany's story of her Tall Grandma. She did a GREAT job writing it!
We love and miss y'all! Thanks, Laura for your sweet comment on Sarah's carmel apples post on my blog. I hope your kids do get to make those carmel apples with the choc., white choc. and pecans, they were delicious!
Love, Heather =)
Please let Brittany know that she did a fantastic job writing about her "Tall Grandma"! It made me feel like I know her! You may have quite the writer on your hands!!
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