Clearing up the antecedent confusion

I am an English major. I should have known better, but the Engineer in the house said it wasn't clear last time who was the nurse, my grandma or my "new mom".
It was my grandmother-- an unusual woman for her time. She was the company nurse and wore the old fashioned white uniform, hat, pin, and squeaky white shoes and hose. My grandfather had retired from being a postman because of health, so she was a primary bread-winner. She was a brilliant woman, who usually did too many things at one time. She always had a book in her hand, along with a cigarette, even while cooking (which she was TERRIBLE at). She would crochet and do crossword puzzles at the same time. She collected coins (I still have the dimes, Dean got the nickles, and Karl the pennies) and stamps (don't know where they are). She played the stock market successfully for years. I called her Nana. She died of lung cancer when I was in junior high. (When I get home, I will post a picture of her and my PopPop.
More on him another time.)
She and my grandfather lived in a farmhouse that had belonged to his uncle George Richmond. They had moved there so she could care for Uncle George in his old age. (He is another story--unmarried, traveled the world.) When I was at the house, it was really old. There was a hand pump at the kitchen sink, and the furnace burned coal that was delivered to the house and dumped through a chute into the bin in the basement. They didn't work the farm or have any animals. I had two rabbits, Snowball and Eight Ball (white and black, of course), and a Cocker Spaniel named Cookie.
Remembering is fun and sad.