"Grambo" goes skydiving to celebrate 90th birthday

"Grambo" goes skydiving to celebrate 90th birthday

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Posted: 08/25/2009

Reported by: Drew Mikkelson
NBC 

"Grambo" goes skydiving to celebrate her 90th birthday. Drew Mikkelson reports. 

What do you get a blind 90-year-old for her birthday?

How about a parachute trip?

That's how Vada Rambo celebrated her 90th.

It's no wonder her family calls her "Grambo."

The Puyallup great-grandmother said she recently decided to jump out of an airplane.

"I've done everything else I could do, why not this," she said.

Joining Rambo on the jump were her daughter, grandson and great-granddaughter.

"I'm absolutely proud of her," said Lynette Wescovich, Rambo's daughter, "Not every mother would go out and do that at her age, not being able to see."

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