Grandma passed away in the summer of 1982, in Mesa, AZ. I was beginning my sophomore year in high school. She was sixty years old. Born in 1921, in the mining town of Miami, and grew up in the small town of Safford, AZ. Wait! I’m getting ahead of myself here, I need to back up to 1921 in Miami …

Grace Millicent Major is my 2x great-grandmother. Grace is the mother of my great-grandfather Ralph Sutton Naylor whose son is Ralph Veldon Naylor my grandfather, whom I have previously written about in My Grandfather the Spy. She was born in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory on September 15, 1879. She was the daughter of William Duncomb Major and Virginia Faithful …