Randy Seaver's Saturday Night Genealogy Fun: Two Truths and a Lie

Time once again for Saturday Night Genealogy Fun.  This time, I'm gonna tell a baldfaced lie . . . 

1)  Let's play the game "Two Truths - One Lie."  Tell three family stories - two must be true, and one must be a lie - an untruth.

2)  Have your readers guess which story was the lie, and their reasons for picking that story.

3)  Share your three stories on your own blog, on Facebook or other social media, or in a Comment on this blog.  Share the link to your stories on this blog, so readers can respond.

4)  After all Comments are in, share the Lie in a Comment on your post.

 Let me say right off the bat that I'm a bit leery of publishing a falsehood on my blog, so let's be very clear:  This is a game, and one of the statements below is false only because I'm playing this game.  I'll reveal later which is the falsehood.

 1.  Mary LeSourd Reed, the woman I called "grandmother" in my childhood, youth, and early adulthood was actually my grand-aunt.

2.  My maternal grandfather, Benjamin Franklin Reed, died as a result of the "Spanish Flu" epidemic in 1918.

3.  My father, Arden Packard, graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1934.

Okay.  Please comment and state which of these you think is the falsehood, and why.  After comments are received, I'll tell which statement is not true.

UPDATE!!!

I only got two comments, and am grateful to Randy Seaver and Janice M. Sellers for taking the time to guess.

Randy  -- Sorry, but wrong answer.  Mary LeSourd Reed was not my grandmother except by adoption.  My mother was an intra-family adoption, adopted by her uncle Perry W. Reed and his wife, Mary.  In our family, spouses of uncles were considered aunts, and spouses of aunts were considered uncles.  Maybe not genealogically pure, but familialy (is that a word?) fitting.

Janice was right -- Benjamin Franklin Reed did not die in 1918.  He did not die of the "Spanish flu," either.  He was killed in the Wabash railyard in Detroit by a yard engine 20 October 1917.