A weird set of coincidences in my family…

Of the female blood relatives on my maternal side, I’m the only widow. There are plenty of widowers, and some uncles and male cousins (blood relatives) predeceased the women they married.
But of my female cousins who are gone, [b]they[/b] left widowers.
In my own line,
My great grand-grandmother died at age 59, leaving her husband.
My grandmother died at age 79, leaving my grandfather.
My aunt (my mother’s only sister), passed at age 69, leaving her husband.
Then my own mother, age 89, leaving my father.
My sisters and I were looking at the records and thinking how odd it was.

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DrWatson · 70-79, M

I never knew my paternal grandmother. When I asked my father how she died , he attributed it to all the childbirths she endured.

I think that for earlier generations,, this was a common reason for the woman to die first.

bijouxbroussard · F

@DrWatson I admit I don’t know much about my maternal grandfather’s mother. He was the last of 15 children which seemed unimaginable. He and my grandmother had 10, including my mother, and as an adult I once asked him if there had been any miscarriages. He was always rather blunt but funny; he replied, "No, no losses—every time Marie (my grandmother) was expecting, someone new showed up right on schedule—and stayed."🤭

DrWatson · 70-79, M

@bijouxbroussard In my case, the generations earlier than my grandparents never left Italy. I know names, but I know very little about them.