^ lol...he actually recovered pretty well. I recall he said something like, "No more than 80" and GreatGrandma made a rude pffft sound and waved him off, saying, in Chinese, "You're crazy!"
She slipped away in her sleep about 3 years after that. Thing is, no one in the family knows exactly how old she really was. Record keeping in rural southern China back in those days was essentially non-existent or inaccurate at best. She may very well have been a few years older [or younger] - we will never know.
An amazing woman - among many other things, including surviving Japanese incursions into China and hiding out in mountain caves, around the age of 75 she:
- left her home for the first and last time to come to America;
- saw and took her first and only airplane ride;
- fell in love with Star Trek [Captain Kirk of course], Kentucky Fried Chicken and NYC pizza, CocaCola and President Reagan;
- along with her daughter, raised 2 great-grandkids [my brother and me].
