My Grandma S.H. is 76 years old and lives at home alone in Indianapolis, Indiana. She was born in Detroit, Michigan and moved multiple times as a child. She had two sisters, Constance and Patricia. Connie was the …show more content…
Wilson, her Girl Scout leader. She was very nice, fun, and wanted the best for them. She also had a daughter in the troop named Sandra. She did attend a youth group in high school and attended church on a regularly basis. School was important to S.H., and she always wanted to receive good grades and wanted to be successful in her studies. She reminisced that one of her favorite memories occurred during recess, that they would use the wax paper that their sandwiches were wrapped in and slide down the slide to go lickety-split. She worked during high school at a tile company doing office work. She made $1.25 per hour and that was a very decent wage to earn at that time. There were many pleasant times in her life, the ones that come to her mind were when her father would rub her hair dry at night, and her mother would braid it every day before school. She never had a haircut until she was eleven. When she had her hair cut, they braided it, and cut it off. She still has the hair in a hope chest in her home