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A little about my grandma:
My grandma, born Dorothy Virginia Harriett Guy, was fortunate to have lived a long life and to have seen many changes take place. She was born June 28, 1911 in Iola, Kansas, and saw Topeka, Kansas grow from almost a prairie with nothing north of the Union Pacific railroad tracks, and Kansas City, Kansas, Kansas City, Missouri, and Atlanta, Georgia develop from smaller cities with fewer homes to huge, crowded cities, busy with people and concrete. She saw people travel by horse and wagon as cars became everyday. She saw radio, television, and electric refrigerators become common place and the common place outhouse become obsolete. She was surrounded by the influenza epidemic of 1917 and lived through the Great Depression. She saw our country fight in World War I and II, Korea, Vietnam, Bosnia and Iraq, and Afghanistan. She rode in the open bi-wing aircraft of the 1920's, traveled the world in jets, and watched by television as the first man walked on the moon. She saw women get the right to vote. She was discriminated against as a women by not being allowed to work while being married, and yet saw her youngest daughter married and working as the dean and vice president of Agnes Scott College. She listened on the radio to our country's presidents speak, including Harding, the Roosevelts, Eisenhower, and Truman (because he was from "her area"), and every president since, including Obama. She lived during sharecropper times, witnessed racial discrimination, heard Martin Luther King give his speech, and saw the coverage reporting his murder. She also saw our country lose President Kennedy and his brother to assassins. She enjoyed seven generations of her family, from her grandmother, who wore ankle length dresses of her time, to eighteen great-great-grandchildren, watching the clothing change with each generation to the style we recognize today. She was a bride and a widow. She loved and was loved. All in all, she witnessed our country's growth for over one hundred years.
At ninety-seven years old, Dorothy Virginia Harriett Guy Zumwalt best summed up her attitude, a main thread woven throughout the fabric of her life: "As I look back on my life I don't have any regrets. I usually did what I wanted to do, as long as it was good. I guess I was kind of stubborn but I think that was a family trait of ours. My eyes have gotten worse and my legs are trying to give out but it's kind of a nice feeling, getting older. I've had a very nice life. Just a few more years to go, I guess. And if not, when I go, I guess I'll see you then." Grandma stayed five years longer, never ceasing to amaze those of us who would listen to her wit, wisdom, and humor, and leaving behind a lifetime of stories to share from Dorothy from Kansas.
My grandma, born Dorothy Virginia Harriett Guy, was fortunate to have lived a long life and to have seen many changes take place. She was born June 28, 1911 in Iola, Kansas, and saw Topeka, Kansas grow from almost a prairie with nothing north of the Union Pacific railroad tracks, and Kansas City, Kansas, Kansas City, Missouri, and Atlanta, Georgia develop from smaller cities with fewer homes to huge, crowded cities, busy with people and concrete. She saw people travel by horse and wagon as cars became everyday. She saw radio, television, and electric refrigerators become common place and the common place outhouse become obsolete. She was surrounded by the influenza epidemic of 1917 and lived through the Great Depression. She saw our country fight in World War I and II, Korea, Vietnam, Bosnia and Iraq, and Afghanistan. She rode in the open bi-wing aircraft of the 1920's, traveled the world in jets, and watched by television as the first man walked on the moon. She saw women get the right to vote. She was discriminated against as a women by not being allowed to work while being married, and yet saw her youngest daughter married and working as the dean and vice president of Agnes Scott College. She listened on the radio to our country's presidents speak, including Harding, the Roosevelts, Eisenhower, and Truman (because he was from "her area"), and every president since, including Obama. She lived during sharecropper times, witnessed racial discrimination, heard Martin Luther King give his speech, and saw the coverage reporting his murder. She also saw our country lose President Kennedy and his brother to assassins. She enjoyed seven generations of her family, from her grandmother, who wore ankle length dresses of her time, to eighteen great-great-grandchildren, watching the clothing change with each generation to the style we recognize today. She was a bride and a widow. She loved and was loved. All in all, she witnessed our country's growth for over one hundred years.
At ninety-seven years old, Dorothy Virginia Harriett Guy Zumwalt best summed up her attitude, a main thread woven throughout the fabric of her life: "As I look back on my life I don't have any regrets. I usually did what I wanted to do, as long as it was good. I guess I was kind of stubborn but I think that was a family trait of ours. My eyes have gotten worse and my legs are trying to give out but it's kind of a nice feeling, getting older. I've had a very nice life. Just a few more years to go, I guess. And if not, when I go, I guess I'll see you then." Grandma stayed five years longer, never ceasing to amaze those of us who would listen to her wit, wisdom, and humor, and leaving behind a lifetime of stories to share from Dorothy from Kansas.