Passing Relatives

My uncle on my fathers side just passed away. My dad is the oldest in the family and he is outliving his family. The reason I am posting this, I never met my uncle. Never got to know him. Do you all have relatives that no one wants you to meet or just never cared enough to want to meet you? Sad when we don't know our neighbors, but worse when you don't know your family.

I'm sorry to hear about your uncle passing away. I do have a lot of relatives I hav enever met or have met only once. It's kinda sad:(

I'm sorry for your loss Stacy.

I don't really have that much family on my fathers side, so I mostly know them all. My mother's side is a whole other story. My maternal grandmother is the second of 10 children, and my maternal grandfather is the third of five (huh, not even sure about this :S). Imagine how many relatives my mom has. I know when my great grandmother was celebrating her 98 birthday and almost the whole family gathered, there was some 150 people. I can't really remember all those people.
But I know all my aunts and uncles, cousins, the close family members. There isn't a family member that is a person non grata about whom we don't speak...

Sorry to hear that. My uncle and I never really knew each other. He passed away several years ago and I had only been around him a few times, to help load some wood and we went fishing once with my grandfather but that was it. Then, one of my serigate? moms died just a month ago and I have been with her for several years. I knew her pretty well but even so I usually avoided her when I could and I used to laugh at her when she got hammered. I felt kind of bad about not spending more time with her after she passed.

I'm sorry to hear about your uncle, Anastasia. Even if you didn't know him, it's still a loss for your family.

I've never met anyone on my father's side of the family. I know he had a couple of sisters, and I think 3 or 4 brothers. I know a couple of their names, but that's it. My father died when I was a kid, and my mom never speaks about him, or any of his family. I'm very curious about them, but I know she has reasons for her silence on the matter, and my curiousity doesn't come close to outweighing that.

My condolences my dear! I too am quite close to the majority of my family but my husband is not. There is much of his family that he doesn't really know and doesn't care to. When a member of his family from this category passed away recently he felt rather conflicted. He didn't know the person but a part of his family was suddenly gone. It is difficult . . .