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MONMOUTH – Gloria Joy Hooper, 83, Monmouth, died at 5:03 a.m. on Sunday, November 15, 2009, at OSF St. Mary Medical Center in Galesburg.
I lost my grandmother on sunday but something I want to share ... well I thought it fit well here.
My grandfather had to retire early from the post office because the bag he carried finaly pinched a nerve in his sholder . Not a man to sit around and do nothing my grand mother
serched for somthing for him to do . She got him a Atari 2600 and he got hooked on pac man . There were times that he wanted to play but she wanted to watch tv so she picked him up a min pac hand held to play and got me one too since I loved to play pac with grandpa . He and I would have high score contests and mom would be my witness and grandma his when we flipped the game (after you hit a certin point it would go back to 0 )
I think we got to around 7 flips . Years later she told me that doing that with me let him forget he was in pain and that she was always thankfull for that .
I am thank full for all the love that she showed and creating something with my grandfather that i will never forget .
I lost my grandmother on sunday but something I want to share ... well I thought it fit well here.
My grandfather had to retire early from the post office because the bag he carried finaly pinched a nerve in his sholder . Not a man to sit around and do nothing my grand mother
serched for somthing for him to do . She got him a Atari 2600 and he got hooked on pac man . There were times that he wanted to play but she wanted to watch tv so she picked him up a min pac hand held to play and got me one too since I loved to play pac with grandpa . He and I would have high score contests and mom would be my witness and grandma his when we flipped the game (after you hit a certin point it would go back to 0 )
I think we got to around 7 flips . Years later she told me that doing that with me let him forget he was in pain and that she was always thankfull for that .
I am thank full for all the love that she showed and creating something with my grandfather that i will never forget .



