Speech About My Grandfather

Life can change at any moment either for the better or for the worse. Sometimes life can knock you over and it’s up to you to get up and pick your head up and keep moving forward. Last January my grandpa passed away and it was a really hard funural as well as a hard time in my extended family’s life and my family as well. My grandpa had lived a wonderful life and had influenced many people, he was an incredibly hard worker but still found time to be with his family. My grandpa was named Nathan Hill and was born in Victor, Idaho at a young age his mom passed away giving birth to his younger brother and shortly after that his father died in a logging accident. All of the kids were sent to live with different relatives, that was really …show more content…
He would make sure that my grandpa had a very full schedule of chores and tasks to complete before the sun set on the valley. My grandpa always had chores to do and there was no excuse good to get out of them, sometimes school was not even important enough to get in the way of chores. Grandpa had got in a little attendance trouble during high school and not because he was sloughing school to go do something exciting but to go and finish his work around the farm before his grandpa arrived home. There were definitely some times that he skipped to do stupid things that normal teenage boys would go and …show more content…
They did that for many years until they retired, but my grandpa never truly retired he always had a new project that he was working on and it traces back to how he was raised to be such a hard worker by his grandpa. One of his many projects influenced my life tremendously, it was remodeling my house. When I was four years old we moved down the street from my grandparents into a house that needed some major work on it, but my dad decided to take on the challenge with the help of my grandpa. The best part of having my grandpa help remodel my house is that from kindergarten up until seventh grade I would come home and my grandpa would be working at my house and he would always take time away from doing work to ask me how my day went and just show interest in my life. He taught me many life lessons while he was working at my house and a lot of lessons that just had to do with building a house. It was a great thing to come home and have my grandpa there to talk to and to have someone that taught me so many things be around me so