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.

I'm almost 40 and have 1 left, who I dread going as I'm very close to him. Had all 4, 4 years ago. I remember my DD doing a family tree thing at primary and they thought she had misunderstood as she listed 4 great-grandparents as alive. This was 10 years ago and I remember telling the teacher DD was right and realising it probably is quite unusual. I've been very lucky to have known them all and been spoilt by them all as a child and watching them spoil my DD.
My DPs had me young, early 20s and I had DD in my early 20's.

I'm 30 and still have 3 out of 4 of my grandparents - lost my Gramps to cancer 4 years ago. Know I'm extremely lucky to still have them (DH lost all of his relatively young ) and try to make the most of it, even though I live quite far away.

26

Mums dad before I was born, fathers when I was about 5 I think. I never knew either. My father’s mum swhen I was about 36. We were not particularly close, mainly due to distance and she didn’t travel.

The huge loss was my mums mum when I was 14 nearly 15. Again abroad (America) but whole family very close. She was incredible as a generally and a grandmother.

24. Lost all 4 in the same year.

My Dcs were 7 and 5 wheh they lost their Paternal Grandparents. Mine are still going.

33. I feel so privileged that I got to know them all properly once I was an adult.

Miss them all a lot!

Two before birth, one at 5, one at 11.

Lost my GPs at 7, 14, 15, 16. Had an incredible great auntie until I was 21 though.

DH lost three before the age of 5 but still has one left at 34, she’s amazing.

It actually was a factor in our choosing to have kids in our early 30s, our parents and grandparents had their children late for their times which I think was an impact - we could have waited until I was mid 30s and DH late 30s like our friends plan to but we decided it was important to us to try and have DC know our parents. Obviously anything can happen but DH has already lost his dad and mine is long term unwell so we didn’t want to hang around.

27 but dgm lived much longer than my other dgps. The others died when I was between 9& 12

14. Maternal grandfather died before I was born. Maternal grandmother died aged 65 (I was 11) as the lump on her breast was misdiagnosed as a fatty deposit. By the time she sort a second opinion the cancer had spread and she died within three months. Paternal grandparents died in an accident together when I was 14.

8 when Grandad died
38 when Grandma died
Never knew the other two

They were all gone by the time I was 23.

24

I was 10. It hurt all the way through my younger years every time my friends mentioned visits to grandparents. It still does now that I'm 40 and friends still have them around. DH lost his last one last year. His grandparents treated me like one of their own, that was wonderful.

I was 44 when my grandfather died. I was so privileged to have him for so long in my life. He was in his late 80s

36 when my DGM died, my other 3 DGP died when I was in my teens.

I only had two Grandmothers growing up, one Grandfather died when I was five, the other died when his own children were very young (TB contracted during WWII).

One Grandmother died when I was fifteen, the other who I was very close to died when I was thirty.

21. Two died before I was born.

DH lost his last one last year at 35. They all died in his adulthood.

7

I was 48, I miss my dgm and think about her almost every day.

46. I knew three really well but my paternal GF died when my Mum was expecting me.

32, she outlived both my parents.

Three of mine had already passed away before I was born and my grandad died when I was about 10. He lived quite a long way away, so I only ever met him a few times.

I'm 49 and my grandmother is 97. OTOH, my other grandmother died 2 years before I was born at 68 (so she'd be 119 if still alive).

I'm 37 next week and I popped in to see my remaining Grandmother yesterday! She's increasingly frail but still in decent health. We are a line of early breeders though - my mum is her eldest child, born when she was about 23/24, my mum had me when she was 25 and I had my eldest when I was 25.