Descriptive Essay On Grandparents

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It’s hard to imagine all the events that led up to ourselves coming into the world or at least it is hard to some people. When I think about all my ancestors that had to survive all the things I read about in textbooks it’s a miracle we are all here. Trying to learn about all the people in my family’s tree was interesting to know how my ancestors came about, what they did, and how long they lived. I learned mostly about my mother’s side of the family who have lived and flourished in andrews, texas where I am from. I haven’t done anything great yet but I am hoping when my grandchildren have to write about me they have something awesome to write about and will think I did something good with my life. My Great Grandparents on my grandma’s side all were from texas and pretty much all of my family is in texas. One of my great grandparents was Dennis Williams he worked as a roughneck which is a person who works at an oil rig. He married my great grandma Louise Warren who worked as a bartender and a waitress most of My grandma name is Yvonne Thornburg who worked at many places such as a cook, waitress, and a manager of a store. The 1970s was the time when women 's rights were in full swing so that women have the same rights as men in the workforce and in other areas which gave way to a new way everyone looked at women. She was married to Clyde Thornburg who was a welder and they had four children. My grandma and grandpa were baby boomers because it was post war and everyone was returning from war and wanting to start families which raised the birth rate considerably. My grandparents got to live through the so called “Hippie Days” where most kids were rebelling and trying to find their identity in the world. This time was after the war therefore everyone was more on keeping the peace than not going back to war which shaped children of this time period to be more against

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