The Mudd-Mccrady Family Analysis

The Mudd-McCrady family has many extended family members but my immediate family is very small and close knit. Growing up, my cousins were my best friends. Some were closer than others, but family and church have shaped who I am today and only grow more precious as the years pass. During my younger years, I was blessed to have all four of my grandparents in my life. My maternal grandmother (Granny) worked at a sewing factory with my mom until her diabetes became too bad for her to work anymore. Then she was a stay at home mom who raised a garden along with her family. She sold vegetables out of her yard for extra money when she had extra. She ended up passing from congestive heart failure caused by dialysis for diabetes. My maternal grandfather (Papaw Crady) worked on farms for other people before starting to work construction. He stayed in construction until he was injured. He then bought a truck and converted it to a dump truck and would haul rock and grain for people until he finally retired. My Granny and Papaw stayed married until Granny’s death in 1995. A year later, Papaw married a woman who left him when he developed Dementia. He passed in 2010. My paternal grandmother (Mammaw) was a stay at home mom. She never held a job off the homestead. My paternal grandfather (Papaw Mudd) worked at a factory in Louisville for a while but started farming because he could not pass a physical. He had a birthmark on his back roughly the size of a biscuit. Fear of

Leesa is ten and a half years older than me and is one of my best friends. She was my rock when Mom passed and is stepping in as the doting aunt with my son since he does not have his Mimi. Leesa always seemed more like Mom to me, while I was my Daddy’s girl. We never wanted for anything growing up but did not ask for much extra either. If there was something that was beyond what we needed, I would mow yards or babysit to make the money and save