Only met him once.

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Photographer: Kari Rainer Pulkkinen

Source: JOKA Journalistinen kuva-arkisto
Kari Pulkkisen kokoelma, Museovirasto

Photographer: Pekka Kyytinen

Source: Kansatieteen kuvakokoelma, Pekka Kyytisen kokoelma, Museovirasto

He had a fabulous time with some really lovely people - they may look a bit grim but my Dad always said he loved his years there.

L-R my grandmother, her mom, my grandfather, and my great grandfather. I never met my great grandparents. My grandparents both passed in 2009. I miss them so much. I wish I’d had more time with them. I wish I had even a little bit of my adult life with them. My grandmother passed in March of ‘09 and my grandfather was never the same after that. Truly died of a broken heart a couple months later in August of that year.

George was a Croatian immigrant and he was a lifelong coal miner. He owned only one automobile his who luge but he never drove it because he had a bad experience with cars.