Grandma: A Life in Pictures
01 A montage of Grandma and all her descendants (to date).
02 It all begins: Grandma's birth certificate, listing her name as
03 The Millers family around 1910: Grandma with her parents—Beckie and Meyer—and baby sister Jennie.
04 Grandma and her mom, around 1922.
05 Grandma's graduation portrait, around 1929.
06 Always the athlete, no matter what the sport. Grandma was even on the NYU women's basketball team!
07 Grandma in Berkshire Hills, 1943.
08 Keeping dry in Niagara Falls around 1941.
09 Grandma in high style.
10 Grandma and Grandpa, around 1964.
11 Grandma and Grandpa celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary in 1955.
12 Grandma around 1944 with daughters Marilyn, Hedy, and Eleanor.
13 Grandma in a familiar spot: at the piano.
14 Grandma with her mom (now Beckie Shayon), stepfather Morris, brother Freddie, and daughters Ellie and Marilyn (soaking in the sun) around 1941
15 Easter in Florida, 1953. Apparently the
16 In the kitchen with her mother, 1959.
17 Marrying off Ellie in 1954...
18 ...Marilyn in 1961...
19 ...and Hedy in 1966.
20 Grandma's favorite picture of her and Grandpa.
21 Grandma and the family at Grandpa's 60th bithday party. He died only a few months later.
22 Grandma and friend Jack Siegelman model the latest swimwear: Florida, 1962
23 The world traveller (left-to-right, top-to-bottom): Amsterdam, 1956; Egypt, 1982; Norway, 1961; Scotland, 1956; Switzerland, 1958; Nova Scotia, 196
24 One of Grandma's many art shows, this one in 1975.
25 Some of Grandma's paintings.
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27 Grandma with me and Jessica in 1972. I think I was drunk.
28 Thanksgiving in the Catskills, 1979: not the most flattering portrait but always one of Grandma's favorites.
29 Grandma and me at my Bar Mitzvah, 1984.
30 Grandma and me dance the hora, 1984.
31 The Millers reunited, 1997: Grandma with her siblings and their spouses.
32 Jessica's PENN graduation in 1991: even in her 80s Grandma could still hold her own at a kegger.
33 Grandma at my college graduation in 1994 along with my sister, parents, and Grandma and Papa Tischler.
34 Her youngest grand-daughter's wedding: Grandma with Jessica and Jeff in 1995.
35 Grandma at her 100th birthday party in 2007. Just before this photo, my Aunt Ellie had told a story and my cousin leaned over to Grandma and asked
36 Some of the many personal greetings that poured in for Grandma's 100th birthday, including Prince Albert of Monaco, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Ger
37 Me trying to live up to Grandma's globe trotting: her in Brussels' Grand Place in 1961 and me in 2009.
38 A century apart: Grandma at her 102nd birthday party in 2009 with her Chelsea, age 3.