Skills outlive the person who passed them on because they keep moving. Whatever you show someone gets shown again, usually without your name attached, and it can travel for generations that way. It is a quiet kind of continuation that has nothing to do with being remembered.

Teach one concrete thing to someone younger this month. Not advice about life, an actual skill with hands in it. Half an hour of patient demonstration goes further than any amount of encouragement, and they will remember who showed them.