Angela Cook spent most of her 40 years with her grandfather, Ira Hartman Jr.
“He raised me since I was born, and when I came home from college, I went back to live with him,” Cook said. “When I bought my first home, he moved in with me.”
Cook can remember spending summers with her grandfather and his prize crop, rhubarb.
“We’d make tons of rhubarb sauce. It’s such a wonderful memory,” she said.
Ira C. Hartman Jr. of Jeannette died Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018. He was 87.
Mr. Hartman was born Dec. 13, 1930, in Fairchance, a son of the late Ira C. Hartman Sr. and Rose Townsend Hartman. His parents moved to Jeannette to work in the glass industry.
He quit school in the eighth grade to start working at the former Longo’s Market in Jeannette.
Mr. Hartman was a devout Christian, often reading his Bible for several hours a day.