Edited slightly from a narrative written for our case worker during our first adoption process Thirty-five years ago my mother, Sharon Diane Marie Sforzini, married her high school steady, Steven Alan Grant, having spent the previous three years at three different colleges that were progressively closer to his alma mater. That was August 1965, and…
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My great-grandmother Frankie Grant was proud of being related to renowned lithographer James Merritt Ives (of Currier & Ives fame). Here’s the connection.
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I first met Evelyn in 1938 at the University of Oregon. She had been at USC but didn’t like it because it didn’t have her idea of a campus. She and her mother had driven from LA to Wenatchee to visit her brother Sal, and on the way back went through Eugene and got a good look at the campus. It met her idea, and she promptly decided to transfer.
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Mafalda Evelyn Di Giorgio Grant, born February 22, 1916, died Sunday morning, August 13, at the age of 90, from heart and lung problems. She and Bill had been married for 65 years. She was the last of the second generation of Di Giorgios in America.
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Born in Portland, Oregon, February 14, 1944. Son of Evelyn DiGiorgio and Wilbur J. Grant; godson of Sal DiGiorgio; brother of Philip Gary Grant.
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Wilbur J. “Bill” Grant died Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011, of natural causes in Pasadena, Calif. He was 91. Mr. Grant was born March 17, 1919, in Harris, Minn., the second of three children of Jack William Grant and Frankie Smith Grant. He spent his childhood in Barron, Wis. He attended one year at the University…
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On Christmas Day of the year 2000, we flew to Seoul, South Korea, to adopt a 5-month-old baby. These pages chronicle his first 4 years in stories and pictures. Aidan is now a teenager in high school! You can see more recent pictures in his online photo album.
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Welcome to my home page! There are lots of pictures and movies for you to see here, and you can find more recent pictures in my online photo album.
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Henry Gran (Elliot’s great-great-grandfather) immigrated to the United States in 1869 because he hated Sweden. The surname Gran means a spruce tree in Swedish, probably related to the German grün and English green (as in an evergreen tree). Sometime after 1880, Henry changed it to Grant in an effort to excise any vestigial Swedishness.
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