Evelyn

My maternal grand-mother, Evelyn Woodward,  
born 1888, lived through  
the arrival of cars, radio & TV, manned flight  
two world wars, loss of the family business  
in the Liverpool blitz  
the moon-landings and arrival of computers;  
always treated by a homeopathic doctor,  
but blind for the last 30 years of her life,  
she looked after her younger spinster sisters  
and died in 1984  
with 96 years of astonishment on her face  
that she was still alive.