On my dad's side, my Luxembourger grandfather lived to be 91 and my Luxembourger grandmother lived to be 93. Both were very sharp mentally up to the end. They raised 7 kids on a farm in eastern Iowa through the 1920's, The Great Depression and WWII. There was no electricity on the farm until the early 1940's, and there was no indoor plumbing on the farm while they were living there. My grandparents were devout Catholics, and once they moved to Dubuque in the early 1950's my grandmother walked to church bingo twice a week until she was well into her 80's.
On my mom's side the longevity record is not as good. My German maternal grandfather died in the 1930's when my mom was about 7. My Swedish maternal grandmother died in 1963 when she was in her early 70's.
I am hoping I inherited more of my dad's genes than my mom's genes as far as longevity goes...
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