My grandmothers died at 44 and 97 ( in her 98th year). It's highly likely my paternal grandmother was an undiagnosed diabetic, she did die of kidney related illness; her mother was a diabetic, my father died of renal failure, and I too got the diabetes gene.
Great grandmothers: 84, 68 ( the diabetic), 85 (also a diabetic), and 74.
Great-great grandmothers: 50, 63, 69, 75, 89, 48 (typhoid fever), 55, and 32 (septicaemia after childbirth).
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