Preview

John Press Biography

Good Essays
Open Document
Open Document
616 Words
Grammar
Grammar
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Writing
Writing
Score
Score
John Press Biography
My great-grandfather, John Press, was born on February 20, 1920. He lived in Pennsylvania and worked as a shipper. He would ship items by land, sea, or air. He then later married his wife, Elizabeth. She worked as a secretary where they would help makes bombs for the war. John and Elizabeth Press had two girls that they put in Catholic school. Throughout their life, they were very healthy individuals. When they got older from age, John Press, had a heart attack at home and was sent to the hospital. He was in the hospital for ten days while he was in a coma. He later passed away on February 28, 1998. About thirteen years later, Elizabeth Press, passed away on January 18, 2011. She started smoking cigarettes when her husband passed and one day went out to smoke and fell on ice. …show more content…
While in the hospital she got sicker and passed away. My mother's other grandparents are Charles Luis Lang and Frances Lang. Charles Lang was born on December 14, 1918. He worked in Philly as a prison guard. His wife, Frances, was born on July 10, 1921. She worked at Philco, a company where they made supplies. For example, can openers, television, and radios. They had three children, two boys, and one girl. On June 25, 2001, Frances passed away from a heart attack. One year later on August 20, 2002, Charles Lang passed away in the hospital from organ failure. Each of my great-grandparents lived a healthy life and did not have any issues until they grew older. For my great-grandmother, Elizabeth Press, smoking contributed to her death. If she wasn't a smoker, maybe she would have grown

You May Also Find These Documents Helpful

  • Satisfactory Essays

    Pat was travelling to his sister Kate Canavan at 1512 Diamond St Philadelphia Pennsylvania. His brother had also emigrated to America 3 years before him and he left 2 siblings behind in Knockmaria aged 17 and 13 at the time.…

    • 836 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Better Essays

    Joann Curley Case Study

    • 1673 Words
    • 7 Pages

    Joann Curley was a middle aged woman who appeared to have fallen in love instantly when she met her future husband, Robert Curley. After they married in the summer of 1990, the couple, including her young daughter Angela, moved into her home in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. By all outward appearances they seemed to be the picture perfect family. Robert received a promotion at his job as a foreman for the chemistry laboratory he worked for. As a family it appeared they had a bright future ahead. Everyone was happy and in love, or were they? Soon after, Robert fell ill for the first time in August 1991 and in less than two months he rapidly deteriorated until his death on September 27, 1991. Robert’s sudden death was a shock to everyone including medical staff. At first doctors could not figure out what had caused Robert to become so severely ill. Was this an accidental work related illness, something genetic, or the deliberate acts of something more sinister?…

    • 1673 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    I was sitting in the doctor’s office this morning waiting for my appointment, thinking about what current event I could choose that would include the 6 sociological concepts. I was at a loss. Syria crossed my mind. Obama care was a thought. But my answer was lying on the coffee table beside me with a Sports Illustrated cover and the picture of a football phenom with a number 2 jersey emblazoning his torso and wearing his Texas A&M helmet. I picked up the magazine and found the article on page 26 and started to read.…

    • 693 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Annie and George had ten children, one of whom died in infancy. My relatives do not remember much about George Zuch who died in 1932 before the birth of my father and Aunt Norma. Annie died in 1946 and my aunts describe her as always wearing a long skirt buttoned up to her neck, buttoned up shoes and her hair in a tight bun. Aunt Lois described her as funny whereas Aunt Norma said she was nasty and very prejudiced, using racial slurs (N. Pejack, personal communication, February 6, 2017). My grandfather, John Elvin Zuch was born on January 18, 1898 and was the fifth child of George and Annie. My Uncle Jack remembers his uncles as having pretty good jobs: owner of a cigar store, construction, milkman, traveling salesman, and “Uncle Paul was well off in California” (J. E. Zuch, Jr., personal communication, February 8, 2017). Paul was born in 1900 well after the gold rush, so I am not sure what his actual occupation was. My dad’s father was baptized in the Zion Lutheran Church and he served three years in the U. S. Army during World War I as a saddler, caring for the horses, harnesses and equipment. He attended Milton University in Baltimore, Maryland and was ordained into the ministry as a Primitive Methodist pastor. John Elvin Zuch married my…

    • 1647 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    Juan Sandoval's Early Life

    • 1992 Words
    • 8 Pages

    Juan and Joan are my great uncle and aunt who dedicated a good portion of their life running an orphanage. Juan was born in Tijuana, Mexico in 1927 and lived in poverty as a child. His dad left his mom when he was very young and his mother had trouble raising 5 boys. They were very poor so Juan and his brothers pretty much spent their lives on the streets. Juan began stealing and doing drugs and at the age of 20, he found himself in trouble with the law.…

    • 1992 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    Essay On Regina Magier

    • 626 Words
    • 3 Pages

    At times it was difficult for my great grandparents to live back home. My grandmother didn’t have enough food after her parents were killed so my grandfather had to steal scraps of apples, bread, etc…

    • 626 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    When I was 14 my mother was diagnosed with lung cancer, which had quickly spread to her bones, then brain. I was so lost and confused; my mother never smoked a day in her life. She was a healthy woman who ate right and exercised regularly, the doctors gave her 6 months to live, and I lost her at 16. Although, there are so many people in the world who do not smoke and develop lung cancer, there’s many ways a non-smoker can get lung cancer: environmental, second hand smoking, as well as some other natural effects that can cause a person to develop lung cancer.…

    • 1722 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Smoking can have impacts upon family members and relationships who live/reside with smokers. Second-hand smoke is very common and family members may result in breathing this second hand smoke in. Family members and/or partners may choose not to smoke but as a result of one smoking around them they are subject to this, and carries dangerous and ill health effects as it passes into the bloodstream. As well as the health effects towards these members it may also have financial and emotional impacts and…

    • 1001 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Good Essays

    My daughter smokes is about Ms. Walker daughter smoking. She relates her smoking to how her father and grandfather used to smoke as well. In fact the brand of cigarettes that her daughter smokes is in fact the same brand that her father and grandfather used to smoke. She describes the horrific story about her father addiction to cigarettes. She goes on to tell us hoe cigarettes changed him; physically and emotionally. Ms. Walker father gained weight, looked as though he was poor, and had a discolorations to his skin. After a while, he started developing a cough. He was getting weaker and weaker by the day to the point where couldn’t barely move anymore. Eventually her father died due to the addiction.…

    • 750 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    My grandpa is the nicest person you will ever meet. He was the 4th son to be born in the U.S. His family is from Ireland his grandpa is Robert Leroy also known as Butch Cassidy. When my grandpa was 21 he bought a farm here in South Dakota. He used to live in Beaver Utah. IN 1967 he had his first kid. In 1999 his house started on fire, he was burned very badly he had 3rd degree burn. He says that sometimes when he is walking he gets a sharp pain on his whole left side. He still lives in the house that started on fire, but he only lives in the basement with his two dogs.…

    • 325 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    My grandfather died of bone marrow cancer at the age of sixty years old. It was a long, painful death; he was ill with this cancer for over 15 years. All the knowledge he possessed about medicine, all the experiences he had with patients, and all the lives he saved, could not save his own. There’s a quote that says “Only the good die young,” but I can’t completely justify that. Yes, my grandfather did die at a relatively young age, but the influences he made and the…

    • 535 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    According to the article “Cigarette Smoking” “each year about 443,000 people in the United States die from illnesses related to tobacco use” Cigarettes smoking are the responsible of the 30% of all cancer deaths. Dr. Leroy E. Burney US Public Health Service 's, explains that lung cancer , oral cavity, stomach, bladder and pancreas are one of the first diseases caused by cigarettes smoking, and that bronchitis, heart diseases, emphysema and others are the one the diseases that follow them. In my personal experience my grandfather die of lung cancer because when he was a young boy he smoke one, two or three packet per day, and when he was getting older all this start to affect them. In addition, a report from “Smoking and Health” mentions that, for women that smoke…

    • 1682 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Better Essays

    Speech Class

    • 883 Words
    • 4 Pages

    Boom! I hear a loud crash that quickly alerts me something is wrong. I burst into a full sprint to quickly be drawn back by my grandmother’s unconscious body. September 1, 2010 my grandmothers life was taken by abusing a tobacco substance called cigarettes. So many people are putting their health in danger from a deadly substance called tobacco. Tobacco is a deadly substance that affects the entire body by slowly breaking it down. Tobacco is a highly addictive drug; there are more than 443,000 deaths per year due to tobacco usage (Leary6). Nicotine is the main drug in all forms of tobacco; it is the second most heavily used drug in America. Tobacco affects your family, drains your money, and most importantly your health.…

    • 883 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    For example, in the nineteenth century, lung cancer death was low because tobacco was smoked in pipes and cigars. However, in the 1920’s, when tobacco was put in cigarettes, death from lung cancer increased (Cockerham, 2005). For smokers in the 1920’s, this meant a higher prevalence of lung cancer than those born in the nineteenth century. After accounting for age at time of cessation; there is a significant difference in life expectancy. When a smoker stops at age 30, they experience all the health benefit of a non-smoker; at 50, they get half the benefit; and at 60, they will gain 3 years (Cockerham, 2005).…

    • 601 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Favorite Person

    • 1678 Words
    • 7 Pages

    My granny had her first child at eleven years old and twenty more followed behind, four of them were twins. She raised them by herself without the help of a husband. After all her kids were grown and had moved out the house and had kids of their own she took me in and raised me. We didn’t have much but, we made do with the little we did have. I stayed with the things I needed and never went without food, shelter or clothes. We stayed outside the city limits, so all the people who stayed out there had to burn their trash because the trash man did not come to the country. This one day in particular my granny was burning trash and there was a hair spray can inside the bag. She didn’t know that it was in there and she threw the trash in the fire. As she watched the fire burn the can exploded and caught her on fire. A person driving by seen her and came to her aid. She was rushed to the hospital with third and fourth degree burns over sixty percent of her body. She went through many weeks of physical therapy the doctors told her that she was going to lose her hand motion do to the extent of the burns on her hand and, that she would not be able to move her legs as good as she did before. But my granny worked hard to get her movement back in her hands and legs, and she was up moving around like her old self in no time.…

    • 1678 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Powerful Essays