Interview Project

  • Birth: Katie Booth

    My grandma was born on June in Savannah, Ga
    She was named after her grandmother and my sister was named after her. She has two older brothers named Wallace and Mike.
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    Locations that my Grandmother has lived.

    Savanah GA
    Germany
    Atlanta
    - Emory Campus
    - Sandy Springs (she has live at this house for almost 50 years now)
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    Personal

    The person who influenced my grandmother the most was her mother because, aside from being her mother, she was a teacher.
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    My Grandmother's Family Life

    My whole life my grandma has taken trips to meet her friends and go to college events at Emory. Also, my grandma has taken me and my sisters on two trips to New York. She has a beach condo in Florida that we go to almost every year. Overall, she has seemed to have a great life from what I have heard.
    My great grandparents where not alive during my life. My great grandfather died when my grand mother was 16 and my great grandmother died when she was 97.
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    Schooling

    My grandmother began her schooling in Savannah, Ga but moved frequently because her father was in the military. Eventually she moved home and attended Emory University.
  • Life Then

    My grandmother said that that when she was growing up it was a lot easier to leave the house and go plan, she said that she would go walk around town or go to the park alone to meet with her friends without her mother or father at the age of 8.
  • Health

    For the majority of my grandmother's life she has good health. But one time her brother's pushed her down a hill in Germany and she chipped her tooth.
  • Big Move

    When My grandmother was 9 years old she moved to Germany with her family because her father was in the military.
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    Marriage

    Mt grandmother was married to my grandfather while they were in college and stayed married for 50 plus years until my grandfathers death in 2013.
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    Career

    My grandma began work as a Bank teller and slowly moved up until she quit to focus on raising her children. When she was younger she said that she wanted to be a teacher,
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    Children

    My grandmother had four girls, my mom is the youngest of them all (Katherine, Abigail, Sarah, Margaret). She said the thing that amazed her the most was how each of her children learned from their mistakes and changed because of it.
  • Best Vacation

    The best vacation that my grandmother ever had was with My grandfather. She went to England in the winter and it snowed. She said that it was so beautiful
  • Life Now (Big Changes)

    The biggest change that my grandma said that she saw during her life was the invention of computers because of how easy it has become to find information.