Happy Birthday, Grandpa

We recently created a very interesting wrapper to celebrate the life of a man named Elmer Jensen.  The back message read:

"Elmer's kids remember a Hershey's bar could always be found in his desk drawer -- so here's one for his posterity to enjoy on his 100th birthday!  Happy 100th Birthday Elmer Sigvart Jensen 1908-1953!"

 

My husband's grandpa, Elmer Jensen, died in 1953 when he was only 45, leaving his five young children who were orphaned just a few years later when their mother died also.  As they have grown up and had children and grandchildren of their own, they have tried to acquaint their posterity with their ancestors.  My mother-in-law, as the youngest child who remembers her father the least (she was only seven years old when he died), has in particular interviewed her siblings and relatives to remember any small details about her dad. And one thing that has been consistent is that everyone remembers how he loved Hershey's chocolate bars, and always kept one handy in his right hand desk drawer.  I thought it would be a fun surprise to her and the other descendants of Elmer Jensen to know that story and eat a Hershey's bar on the one-hundredth anniversary of his birthday this May, so I ordered these personalized bars to send to all of his descendants." Thanks-- Anita