Post by Rose the Hopeful on Oct 5, 2012 9:20:23 GMT -5
Today is Rose Johanna Johns Paradis Deane birthday. My grandmother. I wish I could have met the woman that raised my father. Wish I had a really good picture of her. I have to stop wishing and start an adventure to where she lived. I went to Crystal Falls, Michigan where she was born. She was the daughter of Joseph Johns and her mother died in childbirth. She was given opportunity to go to Sherbrooke, Canada as the adopted daughter of Charles Paul Paradis for a superior education. My father spent his summers in Canada with his grandparents. She married William Leo Deane in LaConia, New Hampshire. My father was her youngest child. She buried two daughters and her husband left her. When my father was 15 she died of cancer. She was only 4' 10" tall. She left quite a legacy.