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Grandma Grandma: April 14,
1916 - December 9, 2003
Read my eulogy to my grandmother,
delivered Dec. 11, 2003, by clicking
here

My grandmother, Claire Friess, was my best friend.
I miss her every day.
Here she is with my dad, Neil, and my Aunt Susan, in 1945.
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With me in her classic
"Happy Hannukkah" sweatshirt
in December of 1994.
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Elegant and proud with
my parents and my other grandparents
at their wedding, July 6, 1963.

Bathing my oldest sister, Sheryl, in the
Bayside home in 1964.
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An utterly elegant shot
with Aunt Susan
as a young girl in the late 1940s.
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With Grandpa Moish at their
60th anniversary
in June 1998.
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Holding baby Garrett, 3
months, with Grandpa and
baby Siona, 1, at Hannukah in my parents' Syosset
home in 1994. |

With my cousin, Matthew,
at his birthday
at some point in the late 1980s.
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With my sisters Julie and
Sheryl, who is holding
Siona at Hannukah 1994.
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With my mom, Aunt Susan
and cousin Heather
in the early 1990s. Looks cold out!
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With baby Arielle in April
1995. (Thanks to Siona for correcting that by noticing
the word 'Abington' on the sheet!) |

With baby Siona, 1, in Dec.
1994. |

With me, Grandpa and Aunt
Sadie
at some point in 1993.
(I can tell by my big boots.) |

With me, mom, Grandpa, Aunt
Susan, Uncle Richard
and, unseen in Grandma's arms is baby Heather.
That makes this 1988. |

At my graduation from Northwestern in
June 1994.
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Grandma talks, Grandpa looks positively
terrified!
Date uncertain. |

With Garrett, 8, at Hannukah in December 2002.
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With Dad, Sheryl, Siona and Aunt
Sadie at Hannukah 1994.
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