13 May 2009

The End of an Era...

My great aunt Kat died late Sunday night. She was 104. She had been fully able almost to the end - her prayer. It is hard to say goodbye, but she had a long and full life.

Can you even image all the new things and changes she encountered in her long life? Born in 1905.
  1. Her favorite: toilet paper
  2. Great Depression
  3. WW1
  4. WW2
  5. Vietnam War
  6. Korean War
  7. Gulf War
  8. Iraq War
  9. Indoor Plumbing
  10. Riding in horse drawn wagon with heated rocks to church
  11. Automobiles
  12. Electricity at the farm
  13. Phone - the party line
  14. Phone - single line
  15. Phone - long distance
  16. Phone - cell
  17. Phone - a computer in your hands
  18. TV, Cable...
  19. Man on the Moon
  20. Space ships to other planets
  21. Submarines
  22. Affordable Flight (flight?)
  23. Computers (rooms, desktops, laptops, palm sized)
  24. Combines
  25. Cigarettes...Cancer
  26. Prohibition
  27. How many presidents?
  28. How many popes?
  29. Flappers?
  30. the 50's
  31. atomic bomb
  32. nuclear power
  33. solar energy
  34. digital photography
  35. internet
  36. ...
what else? there has to be sooooo much!

Would love any additions that you can think of.