She was to become my husband's great grandmother.
Greene recently added her great-grandmother's name of Dominguez to her name as a way of authenticating her half-Latin background.
It's not a holiday created by the greeting card industry to sell cards, but was started by Marian Lucille Herndon McQuade, a mother of 15, grandmother of 43 and great-grandmother to 15.
Cook great-grandmother's favorite recipes and retell the family legends, especially to younger members of the family.
Perhaps the muff was made by a favorite aunt, or the bell was handed down from your husband's great-grandmother.