Sentences with phrase «grandfather died from it»

And by the way, melanoma is a big deal in my family — my grandfather died from it.

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The world - famous evangelist died on 21st February but Will explained how it wasn't until his grandfather's body was transported from Ashville in North Carolina to Charlotte that he fully appreciated the effect of Rev Billy Graham's passing.

«In 2014, before he died, I promised my grandfather who was from Avila, 110 kilometers from Madrid, that I would play there.

Today, the 21st Century, the great grand children of those brave hardworking miners from the three Northern Regions can no more get employment in the very mining companies that their grandfathers were brought down in their thousands to mine and die for nothing.

Savino, from Staten Island, watched both her parents and her grandfather die of lung cancer.

But it is not some kind of Star Trek heaven — where a young, brilliant researcher with a bright idea today can save her old grandfather from dying of lung cancer 6 months later — as it is frequently portrayed by the media.

Recently he told me that my great - grandfather had died from epilepsy at a young age, filling in one more piece of my family history.

They suggested that young people skate toward psychosis and then away from it, just as Brandon did that night his grandfather was dying.

Speaking of disease, I lost two grandfathers to death in the very same week last year because they both died from heart disease due to complications with diabetes.

Not to the extent that we see in the show, buy I remember when my grandfather died we had to remove a lot of things from his house that could be considered trash.

I and my brother Mike were grown by our grandmother Kathleen (our parents died in car crash when we were 5 and 3 years old) and grandfather Todd (he died from cancer 8 years ago).

When 13 - year - old Jake's (Theo Taplitz) grandfather dies, his family moves from Manhattan back into his father's old Brooklyn home.

When he discovers his grandfather (Terence Stamp) dying in his backyard, his eyes having been plucked neatly from their sockets, Floridian teen Jake (Asa Butterfield) defies the wishes of his parents (Chris O'Dowd, Kim Dickens) to go to Wales.

As the movie begins we see Bennett, who comes from a very wealthy family, being emotionally crushed at the hospital bedside of his dying grandfather.

My grandmother, a gambler, has been borrowing money from me for years... after my grandfather died a couple of years ago it got worse.

A terminally ill grandfather's dying wish was granted when hospital staff allowed a visit from his beloved best furry friend, his Border Collie, Shep.

Upon his return home, Anna's grandfather was stricken ill, affected by its curse and is now dying from an unknown disease.

He was raised by his mother and Yiddish - speaking grandmother after his father and grandfather died in a tragic car accident returning from the World's Fair in 1940.

His portraits refer to Christian iconography like the holy Mary or to German soldiers (the young generation in Germany mostly knows their grandfathers just from old photographs of the 30ties because they died in World War II) or philosophers of the romantic era discussing the German identity in the context of the poly national state.

I mention all of this because the absent figure in the photographs, beside the photographer, is my grandfather Victor, who walked away from the accident only to die a few months later.

I stumbled on this true tale about seven years ago, when Jerry Krenach, a friend and Uncle Wade bandmate, mentioned in passing that a great grandfather of his from coal country in Pennsylvania, John Zalabonich, had died in a mining accident.

My father just recently died, and my mother has Alzheimer's and I just brought the grandfather clock from my childhood home into my home.