Nana was 6ft tall and weighed over 300 lbs, but when she danced she was light on her feet.
Nana lived in the Napa Valley, in a converted shed in an Italian family's back yard.
Nana was an artist, a painter, but worked as a house keeper.
Nana didn't drink or go to church but she liked hanging out in bars because she said the people there were more interesting.
Nana had a chocolate poodle named Mitzi; the dog was stolen out of her car a week before she died.
Nana drove a red Ford convertible off a bridge when she fell asleep at the wheel.
Alice Lolita Judkins (1905 -1963)
What an amazing woman... She would be someone I would love to meet... how lucky you are to have her genes running through you...
Posted by: Lea | March 05, 2011 at 06:03 PM
Nana sounds like a wonderful, interesting and heartful woman! A woman of her own mind, which I don't think was very common for a woman born in 1905.
You have made your nana come alive for us.
x..x
Posted by: Stephanie | March 05, 2011 at 07:59 AM
someone i would have loved knowing. dresses like a flower...smiles like the sun.
and lolita for her middle name? there is so much more to her story, this light dancer, this lover of life.
so glad you opened up her storybook and gave us a glimmer of
nana.
Posted by: rebecca | March 04, 2011 at 06:36 PM