Grandma May could wear jewelry whenever she wanted or otherwise. She had a personal jewelry collection, many pieces of which had been given to her by her mother-in-law. She was not lacking in jewelry.

She did like jewelry, particularly jade. Her collection was full of valuable jade pieces. She had three daughters-in-law and had distributed some of her jewelry to them. Some would be distributed to her nine granddaughters-in-law, while some pieces she kept for herself, hoping she might be fortuna