My Grandma was born in a town by the sea called Sligo in Ireland.
She was the oldest of three daughters.
Her mother pulled her out of the third grade.
She was sent to care for an aunt who was dying in a neighboring village.
After her aunt died, she was sent to the U.S. to care for a priest who was dying.
She returned to Sligo to get her two sisters to bring them to the U.S.
On the trip to America, one of her sisters died on the ocean passage.
She settled on Chicago’s south side which had a large Irish population.
There, she met and married Timothy Dillon, a battalion chief in the Chicago Fire Department.
He died at a young age when my mother was 22 years old.
Despite alll the hardships of her life, she lived till the age of 94.
God bless grandma!
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