Photographer unknown, ca. 1952
Maria Katariina Parpola, née Torkko 1875 – 1953
My maternal grandmother is the only grandparent I've ever met—or so I'm told,
as I was less than a year old when I sat on my grandmother's lap.
My grandmother has a determined look in the picture, and determined she was.
Unfortunately, there are no photographs of her when she was younger.