How old were you when you lost your last grandparent?

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I have no grandparents left, my last died when I was 27. Yet I know someone who is almost 30 and has all of her grandparents still living. Can't help but feel a little jealous.

22

I lost my first before I was a year old. Second when I was 14. Last two when I was 22.

DH lost his first at 29 and last at 40.

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51. Lost a parent 9 months later

-4 months..... I think I'd have loved to have a grandparent. My kids have all 4.... Lucky!

45

I still had all four grandparents alive at my 18th birthday party - happy memories.

I lost my maternal grandmother when I was 38. She was 98. I'm glad my children had the opportunityto know her and she them. My last great grandparent died when I was three, so I have no memory of her. I didn't know one grandparent at all, but the others died when i was 18 & 25 & were a big part of my life.

Never knew paternal grandparents, (dad had no relationship with them) and maternal one’s in my early years. Lost parents in my teens.

My DS (10) has no grandparents either.

I think losing your parents young does make you more self reliant. I’m often amazed at friends who still rely on their parents to bale them out either with childcare or money.

25 when I lost my estranged one.
21 when I lost the last one who had anything to do with me and I miss her every day I wish she could have met my husband.

1 had died before I was born.
I lost 2 when I was 7
Final one died when I was 27.
But I lost my dad when I was 23 so was so devastated by that loosing a grandparent at 27 really didn’t phase me. She was in her late 80s it was her time to go. Natural progression I guess.
I am much sadder for my children who have never met my dad!

I think I was 32 when we lost my mum's mum. My dad's father died when I was a toddler, don't remember him at all and lost mum's dad and dad's mum when I was around 13.

I think DS will have lost all grandparents at a much younger age, my DM and FIL are still alive but realistically wouldn't expect them to go on for more than another few years given current health .

18. And she was the only grandparent I knew. My paternal grandmother died when I was 7, but she lived abroad so never got to meet her. Both my grandfathers died when my parents themselves were children.

My DS is so, so lucky to have 4 living grandparents, and good relationships with all.

20. Lost my mother when I was 33.

Two died before I was even born. The other two outlived both of my parents.

I wonder what it is like to have a grandparent, or a father. I had neither

I would like to connect with a lonely older lady, for her to be like a granny to me, and me to be like a grandaughter to her. I know they have things like this in the US. Do they have it in the UK?

I lost both paternal grandparents when I was six or seven. I don’t remember them.
I never knew my maternal grandfather. I really only had one grandparent that I remember, my maternal grandmother, and she passed away when I was 31. I count myself lucky to have had her for that long.

I was 29. I had one grandad and one granny as an adult, but one died when I was 28 and then the other less than a year later. They were both in their 90's as my parents are both the younger siblings. I lost my other granny as a teenager, and the grandad when I was a toddler.

44. She was 99. My great grandmother died when I was 8, and my great great grandmother the year before I was born.

The sad thing was, within five years of my Gran dying, four of her six children died, three from the same hereditary cancer that killed her.

24

First when I was 11, last when I was late 30s (my lovely Grandma died the day before her 102nd birthday).

12. And I only ever knew my grandmothers. My maternal gran passed when I was preschool but I do remember her. Fathers side i was 1st year secondary school.

I'm 27 and luckily I still have both sets. One is very poorly but is a complete fighter. I'm very lucky. Lately it is crossing my mind more and more about life without them and honestly I'm not sure how I will cope.

42 a few months after my daughter was born

my paternal grandmother died 2 years before I was born, my paternal grandfather died aged 84 when I was 12, my maternal grandparents were 89 and 91 and died when I was 38 and 42

however my DD is 10 and has no paternal grandparents alive, my parents are both living though my dad is 96

Im 40 - i lost the first when I was 4. 2 are still going strong....

My DGM passed earlier this year - she was 101!