So Grandma was a victim of old age?
Pretty much. But she was one tough old bird. Breast cancer in 1979; quit drinking booze in 1984; quit smoking cigarettes in 1988; lung cancer in 1995; spinal cancer in 2005 - she fought it all off.
Then, when she was feeling better, we went out to eat in a restaurant. Big mistake. She contracted a lung infection. The antibiotics combined with the anti-cancer meds made her so ill she said “The hell with it!”. She stopped taking all meds. That’s what killed her, January 2006.
She had really liked that restaurant, too. After she was cremated we took her ashes there and had a wake, joined by the waitresses.