• 2 days ago
A beloved grandma fought back tears when her grandson surprised her with her own great grandmother's rocking chair, a family heirloom that she thought may have been lost and had not seen for more than a decade. The chair in question, which is more than 100 years old, belonged to 82-year-old Peggy Carlson's Great Grandma Gooch, who she could remember sitting in it when she was younger. For more than four generations the chair had been handed down, Peggy's grandson, Jeremy, said, but after Peggy's mother died, she was not sure what ever happened to the item of furniture - only that she was next in line to inherit it. Jeremy had heard this story, and so he decided to liaise with Peggy's siblings, hoping that they could locate what happened to the chair when their mother passed. Peggy's youngest sister revealed that she happened to have it in her garage, and so Jeremy drove cross-state from his home, in St. Anthony, Idaho, to his great aunt's house in Downey. Having collected the chair, Jeremy then planned to surprise his grandma with her beloved heirloom on Christmas Day. As Peggy, from Rayton, Montana, walked into her grandson's house, she immediately noticed the familiar item of furniture across the room. Having said to her grandson that it was so amazing that he was able to locate it, the 82-year-old then took a seat in her great grandma's chair, which caused her to well up with emotion.
Transcript
00:00Look what Santa brought you!
00:04Oh no!
00:06No way!
00:08No way!
00:10How could you guys do that?
00:13For Grandma Peggy, this rocking chair is more than a piece of furniture.
00:17It holds a lifetime of memories.
00:19It belonged to her great-grandmother, and Peggy remembers snuggling in it as a little girl.
00:24As the years passed, the chair vanished.
00:26She feared she'd lost a precious heirloom forever.
00:28But her grandson Jeremy was about to deliver the surprise of a lifetime.
00:33He tracked down the chair and brought it home to restore it as a surprise.
00:37No way!
00:39How could you guys do that?
00:42Oh my goodness!
00:45Oh!
00:47Oh my!
00:49Flooded with memories, Peggy was taken back to her great-grandmother's loving embrace.
00:54So it's the same leather.
00:56I remember my great-grandmother sitting in this.
01:01One thing's for sure, this family heirloom will keep rocking on for generations to come.

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