Maternal Grandfather was a bomb aimer and navigator for bomber command in WW2, came home and worked on the rail road and signals man and rode the caboose until retirement in 1980ish.
My maternal Grandmother was a Scottish war bride and home maker, she died of Cancer in '76 and I never met her.
Paternal Grandfather lied about his age and tried to join WW2 when he was 15, got kicked out before basic ended. Worked as a gasfitter for Union Gas in Windsor Ontario, narrowly escaped a gas explosion before I was born. He died when I was 7 or 8 so only have a few memories of him.
Paternal Grandmother was a home maker and ran the family store when my dad was teen. She recently passed away at 89 years old a couple months ago. She was descendant of Scottish nobility, we have a family tree on that side back to the year 200ish when the Romans ruled Britannia.
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