My maternal grandmother, Ida May Scott, (I'm mentioning names in case I have any distant relatives out there) was born in Missouri and went with her family to Colorado when she was young. She taught school in Pocatello, Idaho, where she met my grandfather, Walter Neff, a cowboy from Arkansas. They lived in various places in Colorado, around Lamar, Steamboat Springs, Eagle, and mostly farmed and raised sheep and cattle. She had 8 kids, 6 of whom lived to adulthood.

My paternal grandmother is the only grandparent that I knew. She came from Merida, Yucatan Province, Mexico and was a housewife.