{"id":2376,"date":"2026-04-17T10:00:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T17:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/?p=2376"},"modified":"2026-04-17T10:19:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T17:19:19","slug":"grandfathers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/2026\/04\/17\/grandfathers\/","title":{"rendered":"Grandfathers"},"content":{"rendered":"

My paternal\u00a0 <\/span>grandfather, John P. Lang, in an atypical suit. We called him Bunco, as in bunk. The other cousins called him Poh-Poh. He was marvelous man, full\u00a0 <\/span>of not bunk but quirks and wisdom.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\nMy maternal grandfather, George L. MacLaine, whom I never knew. He died in 1929 in a tram accident in the Houston Heights (elevation 90′), leaving my grandmother, n\u00e9e Ann Terese Masterson, to raise their three children during the Depression.<\/span><\/p>\n

He was the first Maclaine “ghost” I\u00a0 <\/span>never knew. The second was his son George Maclaine, who died in 1944 during WW2, after whom I was named and about whom I wrote in Delayed Reaction (link in bio)<\/span><\/p>\n

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My paternal\u00a0 grandfather, John P. Lang, in an atypical suit. We called him Bunco, as in bunk. The other cousins called him Poh-Poh. He was marvelous man, full\u00a0 of not bunk but quirks and wisdom.             My maternal grandfather, George L. MacLaine, whom I never knew. He died in 1929 … <\/p>\n

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