Category: Faith & Family
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A Covid 19 Blessing, Grandpa Meets Melissal at the “Y”
Grandpa Hill and Grandma Hill homeschooled their eight children from 1989 to 2016. Grandpa had been disappointed, he had wished for a surge in homeschooling coming out of the whole Covid 19 scene. It never seemed to have happened. Then he met Melissa at the Y. Her story motivated Grandpa Hill to check out the…
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Grandpa Left His Body – Faith & Family Story
Grandpa left his body in 2003. He was 46 years old living in Iselin PA. While on the operating table sedated as a surgery was being performed, he got the privilege of watching the Doctor examine the tumor he had just removed. As Grandpa Hill tells this story to his grandchildren, they have just as…
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Two Women That Talked Too Much – Faith and Family Story
Grandpa Hill knows lots of people that just talk way too much! Two special women to him really talk a lot. At one time, Don was quite sure they both talked too much. Mary Lee, Don’s wife, and his oldest daughter Patricia are the two ‘talkers’ that taught him a lesson and the value of…
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Love Hurts No. 3, Grandma Kicks Grandpa – Faith and Family Story
In January of 2015 on a cold morning in Iselin Pennsylvania Grandpa Hill (Don) decides to tease and surprise his wife Mary Lee. After she gets startled and chilled she retaliates. Don felt he deserved to receive the kick that Mary wanted to give him. Presenting himself for the kick, he cautioned Mary that…
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Grandpa Sees an Angel – Faith and Family Story
In 1988 Grandpa Hill (Don) and his family were at a parish mission in Burnsville Minnesota. Just before the priest called on Don to come up front for a demonstration about faith and trust, an angel came and sat down next to Grandpa. Grandpa really doesn’t know what angels are. He calls what he saw…
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How Grandpa and Grandma Met Each Other – Faith & Family Story
On St. Patrick’s Day, 1975, Mary Lee Mack met Donald Paul Hill in the library of the high school in Rochester Michigan. That was the day that Don’s girl friend realized she was his girlfriend. Don had been so anticipating having Mary as his girlfriend and so anxious about being rejected that he struggled to…
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Grandma’s First Couch – A slightly wiser story.
It was the fall of 1985, Grandma and Grandpa Hill had just got a new house in Savage Minnesota. There was an ongoing disagreement about money and furniture. We both wanted living room furniture. Mary Lee wanted to sit comfortably in the living room with friends and family. Don wanted to sit comfortably but had…
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Patricia Puts The Baby First! – Grandpa Hill’s True Stories
Patricia, Grandpa and Grandma’s eldest child, listens with her seven children, and Grandma Hill (Mary Lee) as Grandpa Hill tells the heart tearing and heart warming story of when Patricia, was seriously ill in Children’s Hospital of Columbus Ohio. Patricia was not responding well to her treatment and medications for asthma. After a day of…
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How To Buy a Car
Grandma teaches Grandpa how to buy a car–how not to pay more than it is worth or than you can afford. 34 years after he learned his lesson Grandpa has bought over 20 cars. The family has nearly always has one dependable family car and a back up car. This has saved the family so…
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The Flood – Love Hurts #2
In the dark January night Don Mary Lee and Brian set out for the Indiana Library. It was a warm day in Pennsylvania in January in the early 1990’s. The snow had been melting all day. Flashflood warning were out. There was water on Route 286. Then the family car was floating and was in…