love in 1962
This is a picture of my grandma and grandpa Maxfield - my mom's parents. Grandma was probably in her late 50's at this time. Grandpa was sitting there looking at her with such love in his eyes - he with his quart of beer and she with her coffee - always served with a saucer. We could go to the bar and get beer for grandpa when we were kids with no questions asked. They knew it was for him. It cost 50 cents for a quart. If anyone came to visit him, he would place the bottle on the floor by his chair so he didn't have to share it. Grandma and Grandpa had a hard life. Their first child - a baby boy died at about 11 months of age. He had a bad heart, my mom said. Grandma said he ate well that morning and she put him to sleep and he died. She went on to have 7 more kids - giving birth to all of them at home except for the last one - born in a hospital. Only her firstborn died before she did. Grandpa was a heavy drinker. He worked in the mines and I guess he wasn't always ni...