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Article: `WHO GETS GRANDMA'S YELLOW PIE PLATE?' THE BEST WAY TO HANDLE INHERITANCE ISSUES.(Home Front)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- November 23, 1997
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Byline: Peg Meier
The stories keep coming. Every family, Beth Russell says, has tales about how the goodies were divided when Grandma moved to a nursing home or when Dad died.
In one family, Grandma's wedding ring was passed on to her son, then to his son. When that young man's fiancee walked into a room full of his relatives, his aunt stared at her ring finger and exclaimed, ``How did you get mom's ring?''
And:
Ten granddaughters couldn't decide who should get the ancestors' cedar chest. Eventually it was decided that it would be shared; each woman would have it for a year, then pass it along to another. But there was so much fudging ...